Bug#1066910: chromium: downloads non-free component libchromescreenai.so without asking

[Andres Salomon]

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On 3/15/24 06:57, Helmut Grohne wrote:

Package: chromium
Version: 122.0.6261.128-1
Severity: serious

In recent versions, chromium started downloading a file
~/.config/chromium/screen_ai/*/libchromescreenai.so. Evidently, the
source of this shared object is not in the chromium source package. I
think the chromium package - being in main - should not download a
shared object and run it without user confirmation.

Helmut

Thanks for reporting this! It looks like this is controlled with the enable_screen_ai_service, I'll test that & fix it in the next series of upload.

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