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I was gifted a few of these devices and had to return them. For the bulk of society, they're not seen as invasive listening devices and many willingly pay hefty
by Frost1x 7y ago
I was gifted a few of these devices and had to return them. For the bulk of society, they're not seen as invasive listening devices and many willingly pay hefty fees for them and install them.
Unless you're doing your own NLP locally and designed it, I don't really trust it. To be fair, most already have cell phones that can be tapped in similar ways (with additional sensors--it's amazing what you can derive from MEMs alone) but active assistant listening is usually one of the first "features" I disable.
- maxerickson 7y agoThe basic devices are like $40. Hopefully most people that pay more than that are doing so for reasons like a better speaker.
- Frost1x 7y agoI have a friend who has around 20 of these scattered around his house, on the side porch, etc. He uses them as speakers to play music in different sections of the house and likes the added feature of having the Google assistant. If you only get one or a couple I suppose it isn't too expensive. My parents aren't tech savvy and are quite old and they have 3 themselves in a very small house.