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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by pipe2devnull on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:25AM (#48020966)
I think with Windows you probably are the customer and the product
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by vanderZwan on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:58AM (#48021262)
Cory Doctorow had an essay about that years ago, except he didn't artificially limit it to Windows:

"Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product: Incentives matter, but impunity matters more."

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar...

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