Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com
Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com
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Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS
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Windows: does something privacy invading bad
Google: why didn't I think of that? Hold my beer
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At this point Microsoft is much worse. At least Google stuff is usable
I use my personal Nextcloud since I left all of Google a few years ago.
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At least Google stuff is usable
Briefly. I applaud your de-Googling. More of us need to do that...
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grabs popcorn
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I still don't understand who the fuck asked for such a feature.
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It was the advertisers and government.
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The feds.
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It's for your safety. Nothing will be collected without your consent. Obedience is freedom. Marry and reproduce.
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People were encrypting too many things. Gotta give something to the hard working feds
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It was trendy
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I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:
“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”
That's somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.
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This is the company that couldn't understand why Google Glass failed so hard.
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I can imagine those guys arguing about "legitimate interests" because data that isn't monetised is worthless or something.
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I know we're all thinking it, but people paying attention feel that way because... it’s creepy, it's not useful, it's not something they initiated, and they don't get a clear benefit from it.
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but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”
Well, why do it then?
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Can you like, not?
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WTF Google, did you really feel that gemini was such a threat that you had to usurp its name?
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Both users are angry.
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Don't worry, they'll kill the project after naming it Chrome Recall, Google Recall, Google Watcher, GWatch (with chat), Chat&Watch, Google Watch (new) in the span of a year.
They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X
Nah, they'll kill it after a year due to hard drive costs. Enough screenshots at a resolution high enough to know wtf you're looking at and still have vaguely usable data would be absurd.
I could see it rebranded for enterprise usage for businesses and schools though, at an extra cost.