c/privacy · by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2y

Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/303615/google-is-working-on-a-recall-feature-for-chromeos

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29 Comments

unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de · 80 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 2y

They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y

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.

doodle967@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 2y

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fluckx@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Windows: does something privacy invading bad

Google: why didn't I think of that? Hold my beer

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · -7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y

At least Google stuff is usable

Briefly. I applaud your de-Googling. More of us need to do that...

GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 2y (7 replies)

grabs popcorn

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I didn't think Linux was going to the the big thing but right now it is "winning" in the sense that it sucks the least.

macattack@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'm going to continue buying Chromebooks because I can wipe the OS and put Linux on them.

Ilandar@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y

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JoYo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

yep, easily the best netbooks are chromebooks without chrome.

i wish we’d see another pixelbook tho. my battery poofed and nothing on the market comes close.

TipRing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

ChromeOS is Linux.

lemmyvore@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 2y

The fact Linux folk prefer to count their market share at 2% rather than be associated with Chrome OS should tell you how far it went off track.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y

It is Linux but it really isn't Linux. It violates pretty much every philosophy of Linux

Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I still don't understand who the fuck asked for such a feature.

M500@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y

It was the advertisers and government.

SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y

It's for your safety. Nothing will be collected without your consent. Obedience is freedom. Marry and reproduce.

Midnight1938@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y

People were encrypting too many things. Gotta give something to the hard working feds

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y

It was trendy

circuscritic@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.

lemmyvore@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 2y

This is the company that couldn't understand why Google Glass failed so hard.

MonkderDritte@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

I can imagine those guys arguing about "legitimate interests" because data that isn't monetised is worthless or something.

Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y

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.

MonkderDritte@feddit.de · 11 pts · 2y

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?

crispy_kilt@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y

Can you like, not?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

lol but MS just recalled Recall

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

No they just turned if off by default. They can change that will an update

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I know but that isn’t a snappy one-liner

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y

Yes it is

They can change your settings anytime.

kbal@fedia.io · 7 pts · 2y

WTF Google, did you really feel that gemini was such a threat that you had to usurp its name?

MonkderDritte@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

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