Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device
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https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
"I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed"
"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking"
"The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel"
This is why I'm still for not having any chromium fork in Trisquel repositories.
It's the same issue each time it "unconditionally downloads binary blobs"
Idk why people can't just see it's pure malware.
Forgot to add, umatrix rules are
thatprivacyguy.com 1st-party css allow
thatprivacyguy.com 1st-party image allow
It doesn't need all the rest of the junk to be able to load/read the website.
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I don't find this 4GB download worse than many Firefox features. Then should Trisquel remove abrowser too?
I'd love to only use netsurf, but so many websites won't be usable with it (Trisquel forum is difficult to read with it, but your link looks fine with it).
Correct me if I'm wrong but since when FF forks did download unconditionally proprietary software without regards from user consent ?
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
I don't know since when, but I think it is a long time.
If you search, you can disable it, but by default it is enabled and I suspect there is no notification when this happens.
I'm pretty sure Firefox prompts you before installing that.
Abrowser is compiled with the --disable-eme option: https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/-/raw/ecne/helpers/make-firefox
Without the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), no Content Decryption Module (CDM) works.
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#key-features
"Block internal requests to Google at runtime. This feature is a fail-safe measure for the above, in case Google changes or introduces new components that our patches do not disable. This feature is implemented by replacing many Google web domains in the source code with non-existent alternatives ending in qjz9zk (known as domain substitution; see docs/design.md for details), then modifying Chromium to block its own requests with such domains. In other words, no connections are attempted to the qjz9zk domain."
I'm aware of what UGGC does but one day it will be something else in the code. But that's also valid for FF.
I just want a browser with all the latest HTML and CSS features (like CSS scroll-triggered animations, CSS scroll-state, CSS scroll-driven animations and many new features to come...). Just that.
99% of the websites I use don't have JavaScript, WebGL, WebAssembly and everything else. Fortunately, today I only need to access 1 website with the TrapScript.
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I just want a browser with all the latest HTML and CSS features
Do you use a browser lighter than abrowser for this?
I use Abrowser and ungoogled-chromium. Always with JavaScript disabled.
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Can you view, create or comment issues on Trisquel gitlab without a web browser and javascript? Many free software projects use gitlab (self-hosted) or forgejo for code and issues.
Also, many free software projects use discourse for user discussions (including the FSF associate member forum). On a web browser without javascript, it is difficult to read a discourse forum and impossible to post messages. There is a mailing list mode that allows to see messages, but most discourse instances don't allow to initiate a discussion by email, you can only reply to other people messages, and if they edit their message, you will never get anything.
You can view any GitLab instance with Laboratory frontend[1] and Github with GotHub[2]. I can view Forgejo and Gitea without JS. I've never tried to comment yet.
My suggestions to FSF:
- phpBB
- Redmine
- WordPress bbPress
- Drupal Forum Module
- Simple Machines Forum
- FluxBB_by_Visman
Useful tips:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/escaping-javascript-trap
[1] https://lab.vern.cc/gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/
[2] https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub#user-content-instances
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You can view any GitLab instance with Laboratory frontend[1] and Github with GotHub[2].
Thanks for the references. The Laboratory front-end allows viewing issues, but I can't find a way to comment using it, or open an issue. With gothub, I can't see anything, I am not sure how useful it is, one could just run "git clone".
My suggestions to FSF
Thanks for the list, I had a look at them. Drupal's website shows absolutely nothing without JS so I have doubts their forum can work without JS. I look at the others, I must say that I find Discourse far more readable than other software, and I expect migrating to another forum might not be easiy.
I found https://codeberg.org/glenneth/discourse-mode, I'll give it a try.
I also use the mailing list mode, but I have not seen any discourse instance allowing to initiate topics by email.
Pity badwolf browser isn't in your repos then.
It does all that just fine as long as you are updated to the latest version that is out.
I think you'd be able to though.
Although, there might be others.
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> Pity badwolf browser isn't in your repos then.
I have this in my devuan install
Installed (dpkg-i as root)
https://ftp.linux.org.tr/mx/repo/antix/trixie/pool/main/a/antix-archive-keyring/antix-archive-keyring_20026.03.18_all.deb
$cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/trixie trixie main
$cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/antix
Package: *
Pin: origin repo.antixlinux.com
Pin-Priority: 1
then (as root)
$apt install badwolf
Maybe it can, also, work on trisquel?
If nothing else it can definitely be built from source
There is no local ai free software? Or in other words, there is no ai you can run locally on your computer such that the free software foundation will have no reservations?
If by "ai free software" you mean "with weights under a free software license", then there are options. I gave examples in that thread: https://trisquel.info/forum/artificial-intelligence-confessions
Thanks for the warning.
Sincerely yours,
Malsasa