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> Their every product is creepy, cold, dumbed-down and surveilance-based. Aside from the always on listening for "ok google" crap that can (supposedly) be disa
by jdc0589 9y ago
> Their every product is creepy, cold, dumbed-down and surveilance-based.
Aside from the always on listening for "ok google" crap that can (supposedly) be disabled, is there anything else you are referencing? Im genuinely curious.
- agildehaus 9y agoEcho does this, as does the upcoming Apple Homepod, yet nobody complains about it every Apple/Amazon thread like they do with Google. How else do you build a home assistant? It's not sending your data to Google during this period. If it did record/transmit, that would be a fairly easy thing to detect, yet nobody has.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoYou could build a home assistant to respond to something after a button press. Alexa records everything after the wake word. You can see it in the alexa app.
- dannyr 9y agoGood luck using an Assistant where you have to press the button before you can use it. Major reason why these Assistants are successful is operating them hands-free.
- phailhaus 9y ago> Alexa records everything after the wake word. ...yes? I mean, that's obvious. How else is it supposed to respond to you after you ask for something?
- jononor 9y agoRobots reading all your emails, analyzing all your images and documents? Tracking your searches, your video watches, and most non-search webpage visits too (via embedded Analytics)?