More than 200k users said NO!

More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!

#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!

We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.

We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.

If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.

If you use a search engine, you found it.

If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.

But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google

For your saftety? f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-mal…

By now you've all probably heard about the latest shenanigans from Google and their love for in-browser AI features (if you don't, this is the story: theverge.com/tech/924933/googl…).

Our team has been inspecting the Chromium code and disabling stuff from the very first version of Vivaldi (we have some posts about this in our blog, such as vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no… or vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-viv…).

We've also been very outspoken about our dislike of the built-in AI trend in the browser industry, but in case there's still any doubts: yes, we disable all Gemini-related features, and we've been doing it for a while.

#Ai #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Google #Gemini

Chrome 正静默下载 Gemini Nano 模型到用户设备上。

- 模型约 4G，用于端测 AI 推理等。如果文件失效，Chrome 更新时会重新下载。
- 不希望下载此模型的用户需要通过 chrome://flags [1] 或 Enterprise Policy [2] 关闭此功能。

thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome…seealso: HackerNews:48019219
1. winaero.com/~2. pureinfotech.com/~

同一位博主在之前的文章中还提到 Claude Desktop 会静默为 Chromium 浏览器安装 native messaging host，或是用于访问浏览器数据等。对此有担忧的订户可以检查浏览器 profile 目录下的 NativeMessagingHosts 目录。

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#Chrome #Gemini
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