Gib Riel-Delano ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›

@thatonegib.bsky.social

He/Him. "Road to hell is paved with good intentions" discord.gg/nDmtZQ8 โค๏ธ AlzMarioWolfe ๐Ÿ’œ DamienAfterDusk ๐Ÿ’™ 04 Oct 2019

I try really hard to keep my socials a place for positivity where if i don't have anything nice to say I don't speak. But I also have a large interest in tech which has gradually turned from a feeling of wonder and excitement to concern and disgust and it's getting difficult to not voice that.

Gib Riel-Delano ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›@thatonegib.bsky.social ยท 3mo ago

www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-... "Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it." "...If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it." They don't care even once they're caught.

Screenshot of the article, saying:

"Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.

This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it."