Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d...
by brookst on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:27AM
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Ah, so it’s not so much “nobody asked for this”, it is more “this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”. Also fair, just a different thing.
Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d...
by alterom on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:36PM
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>“this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”.
Since when "being tight on storage space" is a "specific and unusual" case?
That's the whole marketing strategy of selling devices with small built-in storage (and no expandable storage, as iPhones do).
In any case, not wanting a ~150MB installation file to silently download and shit a ~4GB file all over your filesystem is not an unusual* case.
As sufficiently many people have pointed out.
It doesn't have 10,000-ish features that take 4GB of space.
Chrome doesn't take 40TB on my hard drive.
The machine I'm typing it on has 10GB free right now, and that was after I cleaned it up. I noticed the hard drive filling up when I was doing nothing, but I didn't suspect Chrome of all tihngs.