[allenz]

It was an intentional download so that Chromium users could use "Ok Google".

[craftyguy]

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

[allenz]

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