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You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨neme@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/generative_ai_browser_extensions_privacy/

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Kinda has to be unless you’ve got 3k+ in GPU sitting next to you.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A $500 one is plenty, even phones can run models good enough to be useful (if not near as quickly)

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  • wedge@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At this point if you don’t know you’re the product if the product is free, then chances are good you’re not going to know. Welcome to Costco, I love you.

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Forget “if the product is free”. You are a product even if you pay subscriptions these days. They still track all your activity and then sell it or use it to train AI models that they will make you pay for again.

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      • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How does Lemmy, Tor or Signal make us the product? Paid and unpaid software can fail to include a libre software license text file but these do not.

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    • zap12344@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Companies don’t make you the product because you don’t pay — they make you the product because you can’t stop them“

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      • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Because some of us let them.

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