Google installs Chrome, then writes a 4 GB AI model under the user’s profile directory without authorisation. The binary is not Chrome. It is a separately-trained machine-learning model, with a separate purpose, a separate data-protection profile, and a separate consent footprint.

Uff.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

… reporting to you live from Picus.

Grundgütiger. 😳