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Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension

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237 points robin_reala | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 09:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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Animats ◴[29 Mar 25 12:03 UTC] No.43514831[source]▶
Is this the "PDF Searchify" feature?[1]

[1] https://windowsreport.com/chromes-new-feature-makes-scanned-...

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1. scq ◴[29 Mar 25 12:17 UTC] No.43514928[source]▶
Looking at the Chromium source, PDF Searchify indeed uses this service (search for "ENABLE_SCREEN_AI_SERVICE").