Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
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
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.
That’s crazy.
Anyways I’m gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
This is excellent.
Our entire internet ecosystem is the “frog in boiling water” metaphor… They just keep turning the heat up… we need to delete the entire internet and re-work it from the ground up… somehow
I actually don’t agree with this, because while Facebook, X, Amazon, Ai and Google are all the front of the internet, they still aren’t all of it. The small web is still churning along with selfhosted blogs and neocities, selfhosted apps are everywhere, some, like Disroot, even open to the public.
People willingly choose to use this garbage and let it into their lives. There’s millions of sites and services to see, but people stick with familiarity.
It’s like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there’s other restaurants everywhere.
It’s like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there’s other restaurants everywhere.
So fucking apt. Thanks for framing this the way you did. Really clears up my thoughts on how to discuss this with others.
Just go back to the 2000s and go from there.
Every night, I pray to Jah that I will wake up in a version of 2002 where Al Gore didn’t let Dubya steal the 2000 election.
I’m not american, but if I could change one US president from the past, it would be Reagan. A good part of the fuckery we see today (i.e. rampant neo-liberal late-stage capitalism) was enabled by him
i have a feeling not much would be different given how politics go in cycles anyway. W might have even won a 2nd try in 2004 or 2008.
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.
OK, so the people making these claims are filing a GDPR complaint, right?
Being paranoid online is not useful at all. This isn’t great as it is:
We’ve looked over Glance’s AI privacy policy, and nothing stands out as unusual for the tech industry (which still isn’t good). By using the service, you agree to some tracking, including your general location, and some of that data will be shared with partners. However, this all feels a bit more creepy when a service is churning out AI images of you.
…but if you think on top of everything else they are lying about selling your personally identifiable info that is a GDPR violation (and a violation of privacy laws in multiple other territories) and you should immediately file a complaint. Because it is illegal. And yes, it will get investigated and a fine will be set. GDPR violations are constantly being flagged and fined.
Can a non-EU citizen file? You may have mistaken me for someone with sane governance.
Do you have the portrait right? or some other kind of right that is being harmed by this feature? if so yes you can file a complaint and/or sue them.
I mean, I don’t know which US you are from or what privacy rules run there (and I’m curious to know if you do), but I’m sure one of the 450 million people protected by GDPR can give you a hand submitting a form if you’re patient about asking individually to all of them. And you still get a bunch of people in a bunch of other countries with similar legislation to try after.
One may say you’re kinda missing the point there.
Awesome. Stand on the big X and pull the lever, Samsung.
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.
Did the same thing last September, my S21 Ultra’s battery was getting tired and I was tired of the Samsung bullshit. So far it’s been great and so has battery life, plus it’s a breath of fresh air to only have apps I want installed without needing ADB to remove them after Google/Samsung decides they want them reinstalled every few weeks.
Only downfalls have been my broken banking app (which might be the actual app being broken based on Google Play reviews) and the amount of tweaking I needed to do to get OSM as my default map for Android Auto.
I finally have a phone that actually feels like mine, not just a leased device from the manufacturer.
What did you do to get OSM working properly? I’ve not used it enough to get to know it because it’s not been reliable enough for me. But a couple of times it’s taken me as far as a road, but didn’t know where on the road my destination was.
OP12R allows facescreen to unlock, but i disabled it.
Well that sounds like techno fash rape
who the fuck is going to buy anything that’s endorsed by my ugly mug?
Could they not?
If companies don’t push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.
So…what’ll probably happen:
- Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
- A year will go by and it’s a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of “stealing” the feature. Everyone else will despise it.
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn’t like their UI.
What the fuck.
That’s gonna be a yikes from me dawg
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, “Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we’re enabling it by default”?
I’ve already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I’m keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it’s genuinely a “flagship” for £800 I might jump ship.
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much “new = good.”
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
