Is this true? Chrome is open source so someone should be able to point out the code that is doing that. What is the source of this info if not the code?
https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#unwant...
> Chrome periodically scans your device to detect potentially unwanted software. In addition, if you have opted in to automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google, Chrome will report information about unwanted software, including relevant file metadata and system settings linked to the unwanted software found on your computer.
> System information includes metadata about programs installed or running on your system that could be associated with harmful software, such as: services and processes, scheduled tasks, system registry values commonly used by malicious software, command-line arguments of Chrome shortcuts, Windows proxy settings, and software modules loaded into Chrome or the network stack.
Even spinning rust wears out eventually. Not knowing any details about how often Chrome did this, it is hard to say just how significant this wear would be compared to other normal uses of the media. But it is clear that wear would occur to some degree.
Only write cycles cause wear, read cycles don't cause any meaningful wear.
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/03/thank-you-and-goodby...
Can't they (at least in principle) apply whatever patches they want before build and release?