Reposted by Gib Riel-Delano 🇵🇱 💙💛
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I cannot stress how bad the EU Kids Act will be for everyone if this goes through. It's never about the kids, the government wants more control on us
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"Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.
This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vchtpxx46fmaywuoeyo6xsaw/bafkreifbzwelttfm6kken2caq7in74bccsryvytxwrcy7ujnvlhkeslcwq)
