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If you touch those files into existence and chown to root and chmod to 0, it shouldn’t be able to ever overwrite them right?
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I'm on my phone now so I can't check if something has changed, but what you want to protect from change is the directory, not the files. A file can be deleted and created again if the process can write the directory.
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yeah, should work. Will try readonly on windows too.

Now I can't see it anymore, but shouldn't the model be under chrome://on-device-internals/ -> model-status?

Maybe you can uninstall there too.

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thanks, went to flags in Vivaldi and just in case disabled all flags containing "gemini" and first five results for "model"
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