They are already rolling it out in Chrome: https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-is-quietly-downloading-4gb... It won't work on a Chromebook with 4GB of RAM, so they need beefier hardware.
replyYep, that's the answer. That being said I still imagine their preference is that nothing is run locally, all via their server to get all precious usage data.
replyThey could provide a preinstalled harness, which can send them all the juicy anonymized (or not) data
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