Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
Just want to say that Call of duty Black Ops II was pretty fucking accurate up to this point.
- We have drone strikes.
- Personalised face ads.
- worldwide conflicts
- a fight for rare earth minerals
But I guess Treyarch was too optimistic about having a women as a POTUS
Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?
sighs…typing this on an S23 Ultra. I can’t wait to get a pixel to degoogle.
I’d recommend CalyxOS as a replacement os.
No google code at all to get full functionality of your hardware (excluding Google pay, but graphene doesn’t have that either.)
Anything you need, e.g. swipe typing or advanced camera features, you can install Google’s versions and block their ability to talk to the internet via the built-in firewall.
Meh. I just got a phone for free from some company I never heard of.
Best phone I ever had.
Was it apple? I just heard about them last week but they seem expensive
Lol, nah.
This one is Orbic.
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.
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
You could just use a phone not made by a major manufacturer.
I have one from Orbic and it’s great.
Do Orbic devices* run anything aside from stock android?
I don’t know, but it looks like my phone has something pretty close to stock.
Well I guess I’ll never buy another Samsung.
This is why iPhone is better, bros :)
you know the iphone basically started this whole shit, right?
IPhone doesn’t have this “feature”
i meant using making adware the default form of software.
How so? I went from Android to iPhone and one of the biggest reasons I kept it was the lack of consumer-hostile intrusive bullshit that seems to be everywhere on Google and Samsung products.
Hahahahhahahha no, iPhone isn’t better.
Apple waits for android to cop the shit, then they do the same. Won’t be long untill they’re pushing the same thing to you iPhone people.
Apple TV: No ads. Been around for over a decade.
Google TV: homescreen ads for a decade+ and even pushed onto Nvidia shield owners who originally may have bought the devices because Nvidia made a premium customized version without ads until they got tired of that and put ads in.
Apple has problems but ads aren’t a big one.
Neither big company is your friend. They both exploit workers and are both bad.
It’s just Google tends to be better at cutting edge bad like enabling genocide with their products and stuffing ads down the throats of people while Apple tries to maintain a crunchier appearance and vibe and is fine reaping 30% App Store fees on all transactions and making side loading very hard.
Apple rips you off on low storage and high costs to upgrade compared to Google/Samsung it’s definitely true.
Haven’t Samsungs always been trash though? From a software perspective, I mean?
I’ve never owned one, but I’ve tried to troubleshoot a few for relatives, and always found their version of Android to be just cunty.
They have always had good hardware I think, but their firmware and apps went total shit years ago. I liked their old ones like the S5 and S4 that had notification LEDs and unlockable bootloaders for custom ROMs
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!
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
I have an ancient Samsung. Its going to die soon. I don’t think I can get a pixel here. What are my options, coz I also hate apple?
Doubling down on Fairphone, however I heard rumors that perhaps a new model will be announced this year, so maybe wait for that (if this is true of course).
You could also just buy a new Samsung but install a different OS on it, but I remember that there are some caveats with bootloader being left unlocked and Knox security getting in the way.
I am in a similar situation with my Samsung dying (even though its S22+, which is not that old) and looking through a ton of variants, didn’t reach a conclusion yet though.
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.
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
