Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why not just use a browser that doesn’t have that stuff in the first place?

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  • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Some workplaces require chrome, unfortunately

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    • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Anyone that’s pasting shit like

      & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))

      Into elevated powershell windows should be summarily fired and prosecuted.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What do you mean “require”? My workplace says we need Chrome but I’ve used other browsers and never had a problem. It’s just one of those lazy “you’ll have the best experience if you use Chrome” BS because they can’t be bothered to validate or diagnose anything else.

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• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Using anything that utilizes the blink engine is immoral.

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  • ryujin470@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The browser extension is also available for Firefox as well, if this is what you are asking.

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    • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is lovely.

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  • thesmokingman@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think you understand what the tool is

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    • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just like hating on Google :3

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• Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On Windows, all you have to do is open PowerShell as administrator and copy-paste this command:

  & ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))

  …said the Nigerian prince. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

  I’ve read enough.

  No.

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  • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You shouldn’t trust random scripts off the internet of course, but…

    You do realize these scripts all come from this GitHub repo, right? It’s possible to verify them all, unless I’m missing a script here I guess. Even the registry files are plain text and readable directly in GH.

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    • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes and I have read them but the problem is that if you get people to start running random powershell from sources they don’t recognize, and you can’t tell me that the average Joe knows what GitHub is, that’s not a good thing.

      It’s already a threat vector that’s being exploited in the wild.

      Add to that that even though it’s verifiable, this also makes this guy a target for supply chain attack.

      This is bad all around.

      At the very least he could have signed the scripts which he did not.

      Let’s say somebody tries to run this at work and they actually succeed and they manage to get it to run so that means they have bypassed the restriction that keeps them from running unsigned scripts and so right there they’ve made their machine more vulnerable so there’s that too.

      Look, I recognize what the guy’s trying to do and it’s admirable but he should use a signed installer or put something in the Windows store (ok maybe MS wouldn’t like that) or at least use some sort of modern cryptographic protections. This guy (The article author really, I don’t blame the actual scriptwriter so much) is having people paste code and run it.

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• Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Btw OP, my script can even perma delete it from Windows itself! Just paste this shady random Command here:

  su && echo you removed && rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root

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  • irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Instructions unclear, installed Arch

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