@johl@mastodon.xyzGoogle Maps in Germany now publishes how many reviews of restaurants etc were removed due to “defamation”, i.e. legal action from the owners of the criticized businesses. There’s now a Chrome extension that adds 0 ratings for every removed rating and then averages that with the provided rating.
https://github.com/Ennui92/…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/software…
@aardrian@toot.cafeSince I fired up Chrome and enabled grid lanes to read Manuel’s post, I tried my 2019 reading order bookmarklet:
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/reading-order-bookmarklet.html
And it works!
You have to run it from the top of the page for the numbers t…
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialIt's Chrome's turn now.
Previously, on Edge:
- https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/114940591944395847
- https://
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07
@floheinstein@chaos.socialAnyone else experiencing problems with the Bitwarden Firefox Extension? It only shows an empty vault.
When I access my Vaultwarden directly or with the Chrome Extension, it still works.
#vaultwarden #bitwarden
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🔧 Ships as a language server (harper-ls), a JavaScript library, a Rust crate, browser extensions and editor plugins: VS Code, Neovim, Zed, Obsidian, WordPress block editor, Chrome, Firefox and a macOS desktop app that works in every text field system-wide.
@frankstohl@mastodon.socialChrome belegt 4 GB Festplatte für Gemini, ob Sie wollen oder nicht https://www.drweb.de/chrome-belegt-4-gb-festplatte-fuer-gemini-ob-sie-wollen-oder-nicht/
@aardrian@toot.cafeIf you already have to use an LLM to vibe-code for your job, Google’s Modern Web Guidance is kind of like a Band-Aid / Elastoplast for a gaping chest wound. Don’t count on it making conformant performant hamformant output.
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/05/mayb
@publicvoit@graz.social
@zachleat@zachleat.comTIL Lighthouse is adding an Agentic Browsing metric:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/agentic-browsing/scoring
That CLS is listed as a sub-metric seems like a big ol’ code smell to me (and reveals some brittle implementation?): are agents re…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialRE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/116624353840374370
I'm not using Chrome for a while now but it's still installed. I wonder if it does this crap without running.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chrome:
🎵 Hex (feat. Gui)
#Chrome
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737
Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.
Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.
Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.
Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.
Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.
In short, you have choices!
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIf you're seeing articles about #chrome like https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/, just be aware that
@aardrian@toot.cafeGoogle’s conference-driven development model rears its ugly head again.
These skills seem to largely lack accessibility deets:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-web-guidance?hl=en
I understand “in a few it was intentionally omitted”. To be “handled in…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Browser — Chrome installiert ungefragt 4-GByte-Datei für KI:
Die Datei werde von Gemini Nano genutzt und könne nicht einfach so vom Computer entfernt werden, erklärt ein Datenschutz -Spezialist.»
Für mich ein Argument mehr um Chrome nicht zu nutzen. Ich möchte gerne selber bestimmen dürfen was und wie ich es nutze. Doch ich sehe schon, dass dies vielen egal sein wird.
🌐
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo, I’ve been glacially slowly going through the piled up machines that I have and I went ahead and fired up my old 2008 MacBook Pro, running Mac OS X 10.8
Trying to browse the web with it was pretty humorous.
“Google Chrome is up to date”
Sure it is, buddy, go home, you’re drunk.
@robpike@hachyderm.ioTimely event given the announcement today. I deleted Chrome yesterday.
@matthiasott@mastodon.social @heiseonline@social.heise.deTohuwabohu um ungefragt heruntergeladene KI-Dateien in Chrome
Berichten zufolge lädt Google Chrome ungefragt 4 GByte KI-Dateien herunter. Dabei entstehe viel CO₂. Es ist jedoch komplizierter.
https://www.
@fgraver@hcommons.social
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116603032749756623
I assume in a few years they’ll make it so that Chrome can only load approved-by-Google websites, probably “to protect the children” or somesuch bullshit
@jon@henshaw.socialI quietly published the AI Alt Text for the Fediverse Chrome extension weeks ago. I have to say, I'm surprised that it already has over 2K active installs. Especially since it only works on Mastodon. I guess I can't be the only person who wants something like this, which is validating.
https:…
@cdarwin@c.imCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co.,
-- formerly known as 23andMe
-- for failing to protect its customers’ sensitive personal information and genetic data related to their health, genetic predispositions and risk factors, biological relatives, ancestry, and ethnicity.
In 2023, 23andMe experienced a data breach that affected nearly 7 million users across the United States,
including 855,541 Californians.
While 23…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/06/google-chrome-4gb-storage-ai-details/
@servelan@newsie.socialThe Tiny AI Model That Lives Inside the Chrome Browser Hallucinates a Whole Lot
https://gizmodo.com/the-tiny-ai-model-that-lives-inside-the-chrome-browser-hallucinates-a-whole-lot-2000755397
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"Safari literally ships with a fake Chrome user agent string, ready to deploy when sites refuse to work otherwise. Firefox does the same thing, and many of its about:compat interventions are user agent spoofs telling sites “yes, I’m Chrome” because those sites actively block or break on non-Chrome browsers. The Mozilla wiki explains that some sites “block access completely, display a different design, or provide different functionality” based on browser detection..."
@ncoca@social.coop
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.socialWer in letzter Zeit viel mehr Werbung im Netz sieht, der verwendet vielleicht einen Chrome-basierten Browser, auf dem jetzt die beliebte #uBlockOrigin -Erweiterung nicht mehr läuft (danke, Google).
Bis der #ladybird browser draußen ist, macht es deshalb Sinn, jetzt zu
@frankel@mastodon.top
@erk709@social.linux.pizza @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social@… Hi, wenn ich versuche, mich in die App einzuloggen (egal ob ios oder Chrome auf dem PC) erhalte ich eine Fehlermeldung, die auf api.paperlesspaper.de kann nicht geladen werden hinausläuft. Soll das so sein?
@grumpybozo@toad.socialChrome has not dropped an AI model on the machine running Sequoia.
quicksilver:Application Support $ find . -name weights.bin -o -name OptGuideOnDeviceModel -ls
45342169 0 drwx------ 2 dad staff 64 Mar 3 15:28 ./Google/Chrome Canary/OptGuideOnDeviceModel
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google Chrome: Update schließt 429 Sicherheitslücken
https://www.…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialToday's news is Google Chrome has been installing a 4 GB AI model on some people's computers without consent.
Fortunately, it wasn't installed on my daily driver, probably because I often don't have 4 GB free on this tiny drive. Insert Meme Head Tapping Guy
To prevent installation, go to chrome://flags and search for "optimization guide on device", change to Disabled.
1/x
@gray17@mastodon.socialgemini 3.5 flash "extended thinking" gets the geometry correctt in 4 of 4 tries, but the controls still have weird labels. what baffles me is the "thinking steps" all have weird hallucinations
- one claims I requested a chrome toaster with crumbs; no I didn't.
- one claims the image will include a dish towel and a spice rack; no it doesn't.
the image generator in both standard and extended thinking is nano banana 2. I'm unclear how the "th…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFun fact, Google’s two biggest consumer-facing products (Chrome and Android) weren’t even started by themselves.
Chrome was forked from Apple’s Safari/WebKit (based originally on KHTML) and Android was bought by them wholesale.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThis would have taken me a day to debug and fix (not to figure out, that part I was clearly fine with), and took 2 minutes for Claude Code while I got to watch an IPL game. Not bad at all for a next-token-prediction-machine! /s
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place“If someone wants to share your post, they’ll copy the URL. They’ve been doing that this entire time.”
https://derekhanson.blog/nobody-clicks-your-share-buttons/
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073
> find .config/ -size 1G
.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/2025.8.8.1141/weights.bin
> du -h .config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/2025.8.8.1141/weights.bin
4.…
@compfu@mograph.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@beforesmag/116571920185230918
OMG look at the first photo of the chrome balls and MacBeth color chart! They have added a lighting reference made of fur on a stick 😍
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… Both updates (Vivaldi & Opera) include a fix for CVE-2026-11645 (Out of bounds memory access in V8), which has a known exploit in the wild. Brave and Chrome ( ESR) already had this fix in their previous round of updates.
Edge is the only Chromium based brower listed here that does not yet have a fix for this AFAIK.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @servelan@newsie.socialGoogle Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/205219/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euTell me I am a fool. I've installed Brave in CachyOS because I increasingly dislike every single thing I'd write or search for in Chrome to pop up in my "recommendations".
@deep470@norden.socialDiese Google-Recaptcha-Änderung scheint auch dazu zu führen, dass ich im Firefox keine Google-Unternehmensdaten mehr für Kunden ändern kann. Absenden-Button funktioniert einfach nicht mehr. In Chrome geht es.
#fuckgoogle #allesarschloecher
@castarco@hachyderm.ioSo... not many people will be surprised, #Google has done it again, it has crossed a big red line this time.
They already made it so that using their "share" feature from Chrome browser in Android would introduce their own tracking link, betraying unsuspecting users. That in itself was infuriating, but at least we had an escape hatch, we could copy the web page URL and share that directly.... until now.
It is no longer possible to copy URLs from the browser's URL bar (in Android systems). They have reached an entire new level of perversity and anti-user behaviour.
At this rate, they will manage to kill the #www for good at some point, something else will have to emerge.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mstdn.social/@fulanigirl/116575040279551956
They only test their site with Chrome and Edge!! That’s corporate for “fuck” and “you”
@jon@henshaw.socialI'm pretty happy with how bookmarks turned out in @…. Next up, getting the Chrome, Safari, and Firefox extensions submitted and approved for one-click bookmark note creation.
@aardrian@toot.cafeEarlier last week I posted “Focusgroup Tests”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/07/focusgroup-tests.html
Mostly my effort to track and understand the feature.
Made some fixes based on feedback and just added a link to Microsoft’s own demos.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaI sometimes have to use chrome at work, and o my god how incredibly slow is this software?
It takes a full minute to start loading the first page, it's incredible.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialAm Sonntag findet wieder eine Di.Day Veranstaltung in Templin statt. Diesmal geht's um Linux auf Windows Rechnern installieren, und OS-Alternativen die man schon auf Windows nutzen kann.
https://termine.uckermark.social/events/a0a42fe4-543f-4722-a823-8a2943f…
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeRE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116521805012366059
Chrome prohibits first-class ad blocking extensions.
Chrome now installs a 4GB AI model.
Google is an ad company. They harvest your data.
Use Firefox or else a Chromium fork like Vivaldi.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle DeepMind details a Gemini-powered mouse pointer that understands what it is pointing at, allowing users to perform tasks without using text-heavy prompts (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
@matthiasott@mastodon.social✍️ New post: Lazy and Prompt
The story of Chrome 148 could have been about @…’s amazing lazy loading for video and audio 👏 – until Google decided to shove the Prompt API down our throats.
https://
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialI mean... how about always removing ads?
They waste my precious time.
"This ad used too many resources for your device, so Chrome removed it."
@nelson@tech.lgbtLinux taketh away and Linux giveth
Something went wrong in Chrome when I tried a different desktop environment, and then my main Chrome environment lost all my login cookies. Not fatal but very annoying.
I was able to restore by using the built-in filesystem snapshots to copy my Chrome profile from yesterday.
Thanks, btrfs!
@dotproto@toot.cafeAnyone (know someone who) knows someone that works on Anthropic's Claude in Chrome extension?
I'm a co-chair of the WebExtensions Community Group and I'd love to learn about the team's experience building this extension. Retoots welcome 😊
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialThere it is, the good take about Gemini Nano being included in Chrome.
https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/
Google is behaving abominably here, and acting as always like they own the web.
@gwire@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073
The EU should get involved and demand that Chrome *also* silently install some other AI models.
@gse@norden.socialHat sich bei Vivaldi 8.x zu 7.x irgendwas in sachen Theme geändert ? Spiziell in Dunkelmodus ?
Weil ich hab auf einen Gerät noch die 7er laufen, denke mal die hab ich über Flatpack installiert, kann aber ncith genau sagen. Und den 8er über Snap. Und da sieht youtube grundverschieden aus. Auf den 7er ganz normal, wie es sein sollte und bei der 8er eher grell. Oder ist in der 8er auch ne neue chrome Version ?
Bitte Boost ;D
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioGoogle Chrome is the biggest Trojan horse of them all.
Solely designed to cement in their monopoly with perhaps history's largest bait-and-switch scam.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaI really enjoyed this post with lots of info on Gemini, Gopher, history and the present day including links to software I haven’t tried yet. https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@skington@glasgow.socialI am applying for jobs. The job site myworkdayjobs.com apparently thinks that it needs to be protected from injection attacks in text fields. This was in Chrome; in Safari it's even worse.
![A job application website objects to me describing my job as one where I achieved "e.g. > 1 second per page refresh" speed-ups, because "Contains illegal characters < > [ ] " { } \".](https://files.glasgow.social/media_attachments/files/116/686/695/314/363/397/original/ab1dff75c182a8a2.png)
@jon@henshaw.social @aardrian@toot.cafePlaying with `focusgroup` support in Chrome 150 and I like seeing the browser assign the role based on the `focusgroup` token.
Yes, you can override it with an explicit `role` declaration, which will undoubtedly happen as devs choose keyboard patterns that don’t match the role.
But still neat.
https://cod…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/116523711637386449
On both of my Sequoia machines, there are 2 versions of Chrome (release and Canary) and the only place I can find OptGuideOnDeviceModel is an empty directory in one machine’s Canary app support director…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAbout the Chrome LLM thing:
Google has been working for 15 years now (maybe longer) on dismantling the Internet that you love and cherish.
Fuck them. Don't use their stuff. It's toxic. All of it.
@joe@toot.works @Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
https://x.com/zeffmax/status/2051824497242833234
@wemic@social.linux.pizzaAnother excellent read today, this one found via "Bytes" from #Fireship
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently — Den Odell
https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-tre
@dotproto@toot.cafeAnyone (know someone who) knows someone that works on Anthropic's Claude in Chrome extension?
I'm a co-chair of the WebExtensions Community Group and I'd love to learn about the team's experience building this extension. Retoots welcome 😊
@xtaran@chaos.socialProbably an US-american 1956 #Ford #Fairlane #CrownVictoria (with LED headlights—can relate 😁), seen today in Zurich.
#Oldtimer
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Chrome, #Edge, #Opera — Google-#Panne macht Millionen Internetnutzer angreifbar:
Eine Schwachstelle in Browsern wie Chrome und #Microsoft
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Chrome Hill, Chrome Hill & Dojo:
🎵 The Showdown
#ChromeHill #Dojo
https://open.spotify.com/track/5yDH8UWavLTeY23oY8Jv5n
@jon@henshaw.socialFor those who make PWAs like me, I just updated my article on how to make the icons work for Safari on iOS and macOS, along with the standard approach for every other browser and platform.
https://coywolf.com/guides/how-to-create-pwa-icons-t…
@aardrian@toot.cafeTrying an old nav pattern with `focusgroup` and `role` on the `<ul>` in Chrome 150 and getting unexpected results:
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/myRpKpg
`focusgroup=menubar`:
• no roles change.
`role=menubar`:
• child `<li>`s lose role.
Both:
• child `&…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCalifornia AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/23andme-lawsuit-data-breach-geneti…
@aardrian@toot.cafeICYMI, I have issues with Google’s Modern Web Guidance (MWG).
While it can help make less awful LLM vibe-coded output, the code is still rife with errors — but more subtle and requiring greater skill to evaluate.
It makes no promises while making promises.
https://adrianro…
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