Mastodawn

Wowza… Great deep dive by CBC investigative unit.

Looks like a bunch of the #Alberta separatists YT channels are using US voice actors for the accent but are run by 20-something Dutch dudes for the ad clicks !

They don’t give a damn about #Canada’s politics. It’s just a money game!

Exposing 'faceless' YouTubers pushing Canada to join the U.S. | CBC.ca

#holland #netherlands

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7187429

Exposing 'faceless' YouTubers pushing Canada to join the U.S.

Who is behind YouTube videos with millions of views saying parts of Canada should join the U.S.? CBC News’ visual investigations team finds the truth about YouTube channels with names like The Canadian Politician pushing Alberta separatism that a recent report says are full of misleading and false information. We go down the rabbit hole and uncover the web of hired actors and ‘faceless’ creators who live overseas that are publishing this content to make a profit.

CBC

Zaboopy 3d ago

nixCraft 🐧3d ago

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.

That is the true definition of malware.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!