If it was such a good and laudable idea why didn't they tell me about it before they activated it? It seems to me like they avoided it in the hopes that I wouldn't notice, because, presumably if I had, I would have IMMEDIATELY disabled it.

Also why doesn't their task manager show that it's actually the one downloading? Why does it go out of it's way to hide this activity?

Since I have conky on my desktop I could catch this immediately, and take the action I preferred with my own computer, which was to _immediately_ disable it.

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StilesCrisis 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm guessing you immediately close the What's New Chrome tab when you update?

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-148#prompt-a...

https://www.google.com/chrome/ai-innovations/

They have absolutely not been shy about any of this.

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themafia 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I've never had a "What's new" tab ever open because I disable the customized home page where that's displayed. I'm guessing you're not aware that's an option.

Please show me where in either of those documents it explains it's going to download a 4GB model.

	▲	crazygringo 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use an extension that gives me a customized homepage, but I still always get the "what's new" tab on every major version upgrade. It's a totally separate tab that opens. It's got nothing to do with what you use as your homepage.