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Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension


Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension that trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen without my consent, making the whole machine too hot to touch, and I am once again begging someone, anyone, to remove Chrome from Google by any means necessary. https://research.google/blog/screenai-a-visual-language-model-for-ui-and-visually-situated-language-understanding/

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