Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS
www.thurrott.comIn an interview this week, a Google vice president said that the firm was considering adding a feature like Microsoft Recall to ChromeOS.
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lol but MS just recalled Recall
No they just turned if off by default. They can change that will an update
I know but that isn’t a snappy one-liner
Yes it is
They can change your settings anytime.
Can you like, not?
Both users are angry.
WTF Google, did you really feel that gemini was such a threat that you had to usurp its name?
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Well, why do it then?
I still don’t understand who the fuck asked for such a feature.
People were encrypting too many things. Gotta give something to the hard working feds
The feds.
It’s for your safety. Nothing will be collected without your consent. Obedience is freedom. Marry and reproduce.
It was trendy
It was the advertisers and government.
I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:
That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.
I know we’re all thinking it, but people paying attention feel that way because… it’s creepy, it’s not useful, it’s not something they initiated, and they don’t get a clear benefit from it.
I can imagine those guys arguing about “legitimate interests” because data that isn’t monetised is worthless or something.
This is the company that couldn’t understand why Google Glass failed so hard.
Windows: does something privacy invading bad
Google: why didn’t I think of that? Hold my beer
At this point Microsoft is much worse. At least Google stuff is usable
I use my personal Nextcloud since I left all of Google a few years ago.
Briefly. I applaud your de-Googling. More of us need to do that…
Don’t worry, they’ll kill the project after naming it Chrome Recall, Google Recall, Google Watcher, GWatch (with chat), Chat&Watch, Google Watch (new) in the span of a year.
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They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X
Nah, they’ll kill it after a year due to hard drive costs. Enough screenshots at a resolution high enough to know wtf you’re looking at and still have vaguely usable data would be absurd.
I could see it rebranded for enterprise usage for businesses and schools though, at an extra cost.
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