Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS - Thurrott.com
In an interview this week, a Google vice president said that the firm was considering adding a feature like Microsoft Recall to ChromeOS.
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.
They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X
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.
At least Google stuff is usable
Briefly. I applaud your de-Googling. More of us need to do that...
grabs popcorn
I didn't think Linux was going to the the big thing but right now it is "winning" in the sense that it sucks the least.
I still don't understand who the fuck asked for such a feature.
It was the advertisers and government.
The feds.
It's for your safety. Nothing will be collected without your consent. Obedience is freedom. Marry and reproduce.
It was trendy
People were encrypting too many things. Gotta give something to the hard working feds
I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:
“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”
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.
This is the company that couldn't understand why Google Glass failed so hard.
I can imagine those guys arguing about "legitimate interests" because data that isn't monetised is worthless or something.
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.
but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”
Well, why do it then?
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?
