New comment by tthu1 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

tthu1 — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:45:02 +0000

You estimate more or less than 2.5 million?

If you google OptGuideOnDeviceModel, there’s already a lot of results of people asking what it is an how they can delete them. It’s not some kind of obscure niche feature.

I wonder when the first crypto miner-like malware appears that offloads model usage to the client computers.

New comment by tthu1 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

tthu1 — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:33:53 +0000

What is a lot of traffic to you?

2.5 million downloads of 4 GB are 10 PB of traffic.

I think there are be a lot more than 2.5 million Chrome users in the world.

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New comment by tthu1 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

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