Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not (theregister.com)

No one wants this. It’s just a way for them to push their AI products through existing products like chrome. In other words it’s the same anti competitive bundling we see with other giants like Microsoft bundling teams into office

I switched from Chrome to Brave six months ago.

Why can’t Alphabet just leave Chrome alone? They already have so many cash cows. Stuffing Chrome with AI gimmicks makes it clunky and unusable — and when that happens, people will just migrate to other browsers. Alphabet should revisit its own history and remember the great migration from Internet Explorer to Chrome.

It's only Google, Microsoft is also heavily pushing Copilot on its products, mainly Windows and Office and, by next month, it will start forcing install the Microsoft 365 Copilot App (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251593).

Ongoing parallel discussions of the same thing, as reported by various news sources and by Google itself:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297331 (gemini.Google)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292260 (blog.Google 1)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292163 (blog.Google 2)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300679 (blog.Google 2)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297955 (omgubuntu)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296416 (thenewstack)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306898 (arstechnica)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292637 (wired)

I already switched to Firefox after manifest v3 but now I might have to uninstall Chrome... Call me Neo, but I don't want agents in my computer. Chromium should do nicely as a backup browser though. Not that it matters much anyway as I'm about ready to leave Windows for similar reasons: complete mismatch of core values leading development in a direction that to me makes the product worse and worse and worse

Everyone knows if you stop AI adoption, AGI may send you to gulags once it takes over the planet. /s