sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours agoGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down17
arrow-up1272arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 hours agoI remember when the Google Pixel offered free unlimited high quality photo backup to excuse the fact it had no SD card. Then it offered free medium quality photo backup to excuse the fact it had no SD card. Then it offered nothing because it had squeezed serious competitors with SD cards out of the market.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoIt still does, for models that were sold that way. My Pixel 4 still gets free uploads to Google Photos. Which I should really move to immich one of these days.
I remember when the Google Pixel offered free unlimited high quality photo backup to excuse the fact it had no SD card.
Then it offered free medium quality photo backup to excuse the fact it had no SD card.
Then it offered nothing because it had squeezed serious competitors with SD cards out of the market.
It still does, for models that were sold that way. My Pixel 4 still gets free uploads to Google Photos. Which I should really move to immich one of these days.