Earlier today, I saw this news on my Threads timeline: Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices. I must confess, I am still using Google (Chrome and the likes; especially Chrome) on my laptop and my phone, mostly due to the convenience. That said, I’m already sick of Google shoving its AI to my face every single time I open my phone to check my email and do some web search. Again, I’m all about AI assisting humans in doing their work, especially the dangerous or tedious ones. Stealing, creating stupid deepfakes, cybercrimes, and robbing humans’ creativity? No thanks. In terms of usage, I would use AI only in my own terms, not being shoved and choked every second. I then decided to look for alternatives. Some folks on the discussion part of the Threads mentioned the Vivaldi browser, so here we are. I installed Vivaldi, put it on my laptop’s dock, and removed Chrome. I am yet to uninstall Chrome, in case there are some things I need (although I kinda…
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