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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by JohnTHaller on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:52PM (#48057543)
The back and forth with Eich on Twitter and him defending it as ethical when it was first reported on painted a different picture at the time for me: https://imgur.com/a/MotmTGh

When pushback increased, it seemed like it was addressed and then retroactively labeled a bug.

Your own dismissiveness of the issue on Twitter, including posting an image which didn't reflect the actual user experience in Brave stable at the time, left a similarly bad taste: https://imgur.com/a/x9smj6M

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by BrendanEich on Saturday May 09, 2026 @12:59PM (#48076394)
That was when I thought the attribute was added only when the user searched, but it was added even to a FQDN which should not have been done.

We didn't make anything from this bug, fixed it quickly, it's a black mark on our shield still but it wasn't some mustache-twirling grand plan, believe me. It was a blunder.

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