Getty / Futurism As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion Chrome users worldwide. That means even small changes or interruptions can have a significant impact. As security researcher Alexander “The Privacy Guy” Hanff noted in a blog post earlier this week, Google’s web browser has been “silently” installing an AI model on users’ devices without asking for consent. Hanff discovered a four-gigabyte