**** How to disable #Google Gemini #AI Slop in the #Chrome browser ****

Google is pushing their horrific Gemini AI slop into every corner of the Chrome browser, in hopes of luring you into feeding Gemini the private information on your web pages and further get their claws into your personal life.

For now (how long, I know not!) you can probably disable most of this. As always when altering internal Chrome flags, you do so at your own risk.

Procedure:

Enter URL: chrome://flags

In the search box, enter: glic

(Glic is "Gemini Live in Chrome")

There is a long, long list of Glic flags. I chose to disable them all (One is already disabled regarding bypassing Gemini agent safety checks, don't change it!).

Then relaunch the browser.

This appears to disable for now most of the Gemini AI crap being pushed on web pages, mouse context menus, and more.

Use at your own discretion. -L

Thank you again, for the steady development Vivaldi for the user and definitely not for some shady invasive corporate greed. 😉

(I added some hashtags for better visibility in the Fediverse you may had forgotten, feel free to use them.)

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If you're a Chrome user say goodbye to 4GB of your storage. Google has received criticism after it discreetly dowloaded Gemini Nano's model onto users devices without consent. Digital Trends has the details and how to turn it off.
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How to turn the feature off.
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The Verge: Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Here’s how you can find out, and get that storage back if you need it.

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By now you've all probably heard about the latest shenanigans from Google and their love for in-browser AI features (if you don't, this is the story: theverge.com/tech/924933/googl…).

Our team has been inspecting the Chromium code and disabling stuff from the very first version of Vivaldi (we have some posts about this in our blog, such as vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no… or vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-viv…).

We've also been very outspoken about our dislike of the built-in AI trend in the browser industry, but in case there's still any doubts: yes, we disable all Gemini-related features, and we've been doing it for a while.

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BREAKING: [Why bother asking?] Google may have downloaded a 4GB AI model to your system without asking or permission

Ah, the famous Google arrogance is back in full swing! Reports are pouring in that Google has silently (why bother asking or informing?) been downloading a 4GB local AI model to users as part of a Chrome browser update. While in theory local AI is better than spy-heavy cloud AI (Google warns that their conventional AI features send data to Google AND may be viewed by [oh-so-trustworthy?] humans), 4GB matters to a lot of people, especially on laptops with smallish SSDs. A typical Chromebook for example may only have 64GB total and a big chunk of that used by the OS! 128GB laptops are also common.

It appears that not everybody has received this massive AI model file. It may only be downloaded when certain AI features are enabled. There are various ways to check for this and to disable this feature, mostly involving Chrome Settings->System and various Chrome internal settings that most users don't ever play with. One of my Linux systems doesn't seem to have this at all, while a browser on a new Mac Neo did, and I apparently gained about 4GB of additional free space as soon as I turned off the AI features that I never knew were turned on (since I never touch any of them -- and that's my recommendation to you as well).

We're back to the dark days of Google philosophy. Don't bother asking, don't bother informing. Assume that 4GB doesn't matter to anybody.

You need a time machine to find "Don't be evil" with Google anymore.

A horrible shame.

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Raise your hand if you use Chrome. After all, it is the most popular browser in the world and it’s not even close. And the very humans relying on it are more than users — they’re the product. PC World tells us more about how you can limit the amount of your data Chrome tracks — and reclaim a little bit of your privacy.

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Google announced several months ago that its Chrome browser would make secure connections the standard in October 2026. But you can already block shady websites by taking one simple step. PC World tells us how to do it in Chrome, Edge and Firefox:

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