Why I Stopped Letting Websites Download Gemini Nano Into Every Browser Profile
This story is from 2026-10-01. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.
A synced browser profile's backup went from 56 MB to 2.74 GB compressed overnight. Nobody had logged into anything new. Unpacked, the cookies, the local storage, the IndexedDB of the one shop the account actually used came to 93 MB. The other 3.3 GB was Google's. Directory in the profile Size What…
Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-10-01 20:01 · DEV Community — AI
Why I Stopped Letting Websites Download Gemini Nano Into Every Browser Profile
More stories
- Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence — Google Gemini Blog
- Google Releases New Gemini Model With Guardrails Amid A.I. Safety Debate — New York Times Technology
- OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns — New York Times Technology
- OpenAI DevDay 2026 Keynote (FULL) — OpenAI YouTube
- Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet — Ars Technica AI
- GEMINI 4 ARGON RELEASE — r/GeminiAI
- Guided Vision in Gemini Live: built for accessibility — Google Gemini Blog
- Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon with SOTA score on DeepSWE — TestingCatalog AI News
Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →