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I'm guessing you immediately close the What's New Chrome tab when you update?

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-148#prompt-a...

https://www.google.com/chrome/ai-innovations/

They have absolutely not been shy about any of this.

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I've never had a "What's new" tab ever open because I disable the customized home page where that's displayed. I'm guessing you're not aware that's an option.

Please show me where in either of those documents it explains it's going to download a 4GB model.

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I use an extension that gives me a customized homepage, but I still always get the "what's new" tab on every major version upgrade.

It's a totally separate tab that opens. It's got nothing to do with what you use as your homepage.

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Thank you for going out of your way to deny my exact experience. Do you think I'm doing this to rag on Google? And you're this eager to defend them?

I'm on gentoo. I have to update chrome manually. I updated it. On update I _never_ get a "what's new" page. I've had this profile for more than a decade so I have no actual idea why, but, I can absolutely tell you, I do *not* get one. After update it started consuming all my bandwidth. This use did not show in it's task manager. I have a metered connection. This is a problem for me. I worried it was a compromised plugin. I had to spend 10 minutes in Firefox discovering why chrome was doing this then going to the configuration and disabling this.

This was a disappointing experience. I'm sorry you feel differently; other than stating the obvious, I seriously have no idea what you and the other corporate defense squad members are trying to achieve with this gaslighting nonsense.

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