100%. "Researchers Discover Chrome Uses Your Hard Drive to Silently Make a Copy of Everything you Look At Online" is ominous and scary and also an accurate description of how caches work. There's enough scary and bad AI stuff to discuss without needing to use scare tactics.
What part of rendering a web page needs Gemini?
What part of rendering a web page needs a local disk cache?
The part where you revisit or reload a site
Okay, then the part where I translate or extract text from an image or summarize a site is the part where I need Gemini.
Everyone revisits or reloads a website. Not everyone uses the features you refer to, and I would guess it's a minority that does.
What part of rendering a site is text extraction or summary?
Do you use a translation program to play browser games?
> the part where I need Gemini.
This is like saying that the part of driving where you wash dishes is why you, personally, need a dishwasher in your car. There is no feature that would fail the challenge if you can always claim that you need it to render a web page.
Local disk cache is a standard and reasonable feature expected by the vast majority of browser users. You are being obtuse.