Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model On Your Device Without Consent

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By BeauHDMay 8, 2026, 12:00 pm130 pts
Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy's Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user launch of…

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