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		allenz on Sept 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I’m done with Chrome It was an intentional download so that Chromium users could use "Ok Google".

craftyguy on Sept 24, 2018 [–]

Even worse, though the comments I was replying to seem to indicate that you are wrong?

allenz on Sept 24, 2018 | [–]

craftyguy was just speculating.

"Chromium does download hotword-x86-64.nexe on startup, but it has been carefully designed as an opt-in feature"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735795

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