> poorly informed pseudo intellectual drivel ... Since we are dropping the standards now, I will accuse you of being brainwashed. At one point you said: > I h

> poorly informed pseudo intellectual drivel ... Since we are dropping the standards now, I will accuse you of being brainwashed. At one point you said: > I have literally never seen Google claim Google Photos is using on device classification, I'd love a source for that since nothing about how it works implies that. Maybe you mean it does some very specific type of classification as a pre-processing step? When Apple puts fluffy marketing claiming that now they are doing photo classification on-device, you immediately assume not only that it is true, but that they are _the first_ to do it, and that everyone else is doing photo classification on some fancy remote service. "Why, if Apple markets it, then everyone else would also have marketed it, otherwise it means they are not doing it!" The thought that perhaps it was actually the opposite - that the majority of vendors were already doing photo classification on-device, and that it was _only Apple_ who was doing the stupid move of sending your photos to the cloud for tagging - never entered your mind. This is the power of marketing. And guess which one is rather likely to be true. I just took a couple of pictures of bananas in my 2018ish Android device with no network connectivity of any kind and after one minute they were tagged as "bananas" and "fruit". This is precisely what I was complaining on my original post. Apple's privacy strategy is mostly marketing fluff at best, and yet it is having an unreasonable effect on people like you. > I could ask a toddler "who is more likely not to eat your lollipop, the man who says he will eat it or the man who claims he won't" and they'd understand A more correct analogy would be: who of the men from the shady vans is most likely to kidnap your children. The ones who claim to be "experts in not kidnapping children" or the ones who claim to be "experts in not kidnapping children, those guys at the other van are the real kidnappers". > Have a good one, good luck with your privately owned servers and home-brew OS. I'm sure your privacy is very well protected by giving the world a fingerprint on your identity. Again another ridiculous analogy that does not work. You do not need a "home-brew OS", and I have in fact mentioned several alternatives during the above conversation (e.g. de-googling).