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this wouldn't matter if the page itself was calling the AI thingamajig

This isn't making sense to me. Due to the same-origin policy, anything on google.com can only access the cookies and other application data stored there by google.com. Doesn't matter if it's JavaScript or an "AI", Google can't break the same-origin policy and read cookies from other domains. AI changes nothing about this.

(Google services' widespread use by 3rd party sites does give them more data, but they have that whether you load google.com with JS or not. And again, unclear how AI changes anything about what data is available to them.)

Google can eventually allow anything on their domains to access whatever they want in the future and the end user can do nothing about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918052

If they do go this route it'd of course be highly controversial (not that they care), but also limited to Chrome. Even if they dare put it in Chromium itself, Brave, Vivaldi, etc would rip it out. Microsoft would just redirect the collection in Edge to their servers.

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