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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)

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[–] gokayburucdev@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it is not so simple. Microsoft Windows uses Copilot inside the system. Google Chrome uses Gemini models. Even the duckduckgo uses an optional AI. Nowadays any computer touches the internet touches AI systems directly or indirectly.

Use as much as possible the local software instead of cloud-based softwares
F*** the big tech companies. Use Linux, use librewolf or brave or any suitable browser instead of Chrome and Mozilla.
Use firewall all over your system.
Use DNS filtering
Use custom roms In your android
Fuck Google search. Use another search engine.
Use Neovim or VSCodium instead of motherfucker VSCode
Use self hosted cloud services

You cannot avoid 100%, but you can decrease the collateral damage in this way.

[–] BendingHawk@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Not simple but worth the effort IMO. Totally agree with your list, use FOSS when possible, Adguard Home makes for great DNS filtering, I've been a fan of Kagi for search, gotta pay a little but get a ton of control over your search engine.

If someone is comfortable with computers I highly recommend looking into a VPS, you can get one cheaper then cloud services and use tools like Yunohost to make getting started self hosting not hard.