This is bonkers! #degoogle “Both of these episodes, the Anthropic Claude Desktop manifest install I wrote about two weeks ago and the Google Chrome Gemini Nano push I am writing about today, share the same underlying decision. An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.” https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install