How hard would have been to add a simple message, warning people about it and offering to opt out? Most would have clicked OK without reading anyway, and Google could pretend they give a shit about users. Unless they expected blowback, and that kind of message is the "compromise" they want to eventually land on.

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wolvoleo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They don't want you to opt out. Then they can't brag to the shareholders about Chrome being "AI Powered"

You're not even the customer when it comes to Google.

	▲	sidewndr46 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't forget the metric saying "99.97% of user have installed this" even though less than 1% of users know it exists, much less use it
	▲	lkramer 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		at this point you're barely the product either. You're more a passive platform for them to execute their strategy on.
	▲	data-ottawa 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was not happy when they added Gemini to the top bar, in its own place that nothing else gets to use.

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raxxorraxor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think a local AI model is appreciated, but it being bundled and executed through Chrome, I expect that more or less all data get exfiltrated by Google.

They simply read your mails, how would you expect there to be anything resembling decency in a company like that? It is the ad business.

Bad thing is that people still use gmail.

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ssss11 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because we must get what the tech overlords want us to get, not what we want to get.