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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago

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

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago
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Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS
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In an interview this week, a Google vice president said that the firm was considering adding a feature like Microsoft Recall to ChromeOS.
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  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

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        Removed by mod

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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

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      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.

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

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          GrapheneOS logic lol

        • JoYo@lemmy.ml
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          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.

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        https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall

        • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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          Why the project have an Elon Musk xitter in the readme?

      • TipRing@lemmy.world
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        ChromeOS is Linux.

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          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.

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

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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.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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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?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    lol but MS just recalled Recall

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      No they just turned if off by default. They can change that will an update

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

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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          Yes it is

          They can change your settings anytime.

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    Both users are angry.

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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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