[stlee42]

previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888

as noted in [0], the models are hosted on storage.googleapis.com and downloaded on demand. this still seems to be the case [1]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604095

1: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/blob/main/ex...

[GekkePrutser]

Weird. Why give your biggest competitor insight in your usage numbers??

[s3p]

I feel like it won't matter. FF translation usage statistics will be a small fraction of Google's, and I can't imagine them even being interested at that kind of data. Since it's an add on (vs. Chrome auto translation by default), it probably won't be adopted by much of the browser userbase.

[andrewxdiamond]

It is illegal for GCP to give that information to Chrome. pretty blatant antitrust violation

[andrenatalbr]

No usage data is sent to Google. Only the models are stored on GCS under Mozilla's account and tracking is not even an option.

[GekkePrutser]

They can still tell the number of downloads, thus the number of users using this when a new language model update is released.

[autoexec]

I guess this won't work for me then. I'm not going to unblock googleapis.com for it.