Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where “your friend” suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends
Black Mirror with Rashida Jones
Oh wild, good call
Lol who downvoted you but not me?
Lol, I want to believe it was someone who wanted to slow the spread of this concept in the world, lashing out against it the only way they could.
That said I’ve def bookmarked that episode for watching. I lost track of Black MIrror, it’s a bit tough in that it’s so grim that each episode doesn’t really leave you wanting to watch the next one in my experience. But it’s had some bangers.
That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).
Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.
After having watched it (it was good, watched it with the buddy who had the idea and without telling him why we were watching it, he had a laugh the first time it happened), if you found it a real struggle, definitely don’t read this article about a real company that made a brain implant for epileptics and went under of which the episode heavily reminded me.
Gross.
I’m currently in the process of moving everything over to a pixel running GrapheneOS and am glad to be doing so because of shit exactly like this.
I just want technology that does what I want it to and doesn’t spy on me. Shouldn’t be this hard especially if I pay for the product.
Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?
The other option is bombing kids.
Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won’t be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.
Thousands of pictures of regular people’s faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They’re definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.
This is what makes me excited for Linux phones to finally become viable. Every major phone manufacturer is making their UX worse and expanding their hidden spyware for the sake of profits.
Graphene os is great but you can only install it on a Pixel. But they give extended support for older devices which is nice. HOWEVER, people are making Linux builds for even older devices, including the iphone 6. Getting a new phone after 7 years might not be necessary in the future.
The moment I see myself in an ad, I’m giving up on technology and joining the Amish.
Don’t do that. The Amish are not good people.
https://www.grunge.com/268104/the-dark-truth-about-amish-country/
We should all be more like the actual Luddites - they destroyed technology that was being used to exploit and/or displace workers.
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We’ve already kinda got that: !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I’ve been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.
Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don’t need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!
Thanks for your comment, because I really want to get pixel and custom ROM with GOS, but I am soooo scared to ruin something. Never done anything like that… I was even looking for IT specialist who could do that,but no phone service stores does it. I have read manuals how to do it, but still self-esteem is missing as I have know knowledge about it…
That’s technically true but the default experience would be a challenge for most noobs. It takes a bit of work to get apps for typical stuff, have to go get Fdroid and allow install from other sources etc
On my Samsung I don’t have G account. I use only apps from Fdroid or if I really really need anything from Gplay, I get it from Aurora… and I am blond, just learned about open source and installed Ubuntu on PC. Not me of course, IT technician 😅
I’m thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.
If I can do it, anyone can.
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
