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You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out - WIRED

Reported by Lily Hay Newman | May 7, 2026, 8:31 pm

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Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to.

If you useGoogle's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if…

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