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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by sevenzero on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:36AM (#48019627)
I just checked it out, but it removes Tor access? It would pretty much downgrade the regular browser
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by StingyJelly on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:49AM (#48019721)
I think using tor in brave just makes you stand out more - stock tor browser is probably a better setup. Whonix even better.
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by heavyset_go on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:54AM (#48019788)
It helps if you're doing mundane things and want to help people who need to mix their sensitive traffic with it.

More people "legitimately" using Tor makes it less likely to have its exit nodes outright blocked, as well, and assuming all traffic from them is malicious.

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by StingyJelly on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:12AM (#48019945)
That's charitable, but even then you probably want to avoid fingerprinting...
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