Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension that trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen without my consent, making the whole machine too hot to touch, and I am once again begging someone, anyone, to remove Chrome from Google by any means necessary.

research.google/blog/screenai-

This task continuously reads every pixel in every tab in every window to build a machine vision model for "accessibility". The task instantly respawns if you kill it, reduces battery life from 9 hours to less than one hour, and makes the laptop too hot to touch. It can't be turned off.

A screenshot of the ChromeOS task manager, showing a runaway "Screen AI Service" consuming over 2GB of RAM and almost two whole CPU cores.
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