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Most people just find it convenient and don't want to think further. It's so disheartening, I've thought for hours and hours about how to fix this but can't com
by Grangar 9y ago
Most people just find it convenient and don't want to think further. It's so disheartening, I've thought for hours and hours about how to fix this but can't come up with anything. People will be people.
- iagooar 9y agoMaybe people need an alternative that is as good, yet not spying on you? A device that won't ever record anything permanently, that won't ever call home / to the cloud. I don't think we can revert the trend, but maybe at least try and redirect the stream to a solution that is concerned with privacy.
- Vinnl 9y agoThere's one that I know of, but as usual, less developed. Still, probably worth checking out: https://mycroft.ai/ https://mycroft.ai/
- Insanity 9y agoI actually quite like the name of that!
- Grangar 9y agoBut at this point, it would be either A) limited in function, B) prohibitively expensive or C) too technically complex since you can't mine the data for advertising money. The same goes for the Whatsapp dilemma.
- ashark 9y agoWill not happen until it doesn't have to compete with a free, paid-for-by-spying option. So only if a law's passed outlawing massive, intrusive data collection.
- gagege 9y agoWhich will never happen because the government loves the control its surveillance buddies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple provide. And the people will keep voting for the politicians who will "protect them" from "threats" like terrorism and drugs.