Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins
6 hours ago by meejle to c/technology
fuck offffff
Almost everything just works after installing sandboxed Google Play Services. For a few apps you have to tweak a setting to turn off some of GrapheneOS's exploit protections. But I've found very few that refuse to run, and nothing indispensable. If you don't like your main profile having Play Services you can set them up under a second profile or a private area and keep the apps that use them away from your main profile.
Ive only got one gripe with it and its the requirement for RCS. I do prefer to use signal but genuinely only one person I know has gotten on to it. I hate using google messages but for folks that send me bulk pictures from iOS its just a hassle until there's a Foss one that works but there isnt to my knowledge. I do know RCS only works on the main profile goo
That has been working fine for years at this point.
Just grab an app like Shelter.
The other thing that might be a dealbreaker for you is no contactless payments with things like google wallet will work. But you could always just attach your credit card to the back of your phone and :tada: it works again lol
Contactless payments technically work fine, just not via Google Wallet. Banks that have their own tap to pay app usually don't have that problem.
I found this list helpful: https://privsec.dev/...
I also found that one of the ones I use would only work in the Owner profile with Gplay services so the secondary profile wasn't an option for it.
It's probably illegal in Germany and some other EU countries. Not that that always stops Big Tech. But this one, at least in Germany, could land the user some jail time.
Well there are adapter cables USB-C to 3.5mm. On my previous phone in my car I used a splitting cable to power it while using the 3.5mm as input to the car radio. However on my new phone Samsung decided to not support it anymore -.-
Fucking yikes
Um, oh fuck no.
The reams of personally-identifiable information that will leak is insane.
We're not allowed to have Siri and Alexa listening when we're working, lest a stray word on a phone call from the home office risks a privacy breach.
Aaaand it's Niantic all over again.
Motorola needs to release those GrapheneOS compatible phones now 💀
I already get "random" ads for things that were only part of a verbal conversation that happened to be near the phone.
What I want is a physical kill switch for the mic and camera, less surveillance not more.
The reality is they don't need to listen.
They have so much data on users.
- how old you are
- where you are
- what you last bought
- when you just bought it
- who you are near
- what they bought
- what the people around you are searching and what ads they are seeing
- what is being bought and sold by everyone around you
- when you sleep
- what you eat
- the things you are chatting about on MMS
- where you go
- when you're home and when and where you work
It just goes on and on and on.
People think they are unique but they are not as unique as they think.
Okay but how does all of that
Tell them I'm in the market for a toilet seat?
And then forget to tell them - I only need 1 toilet seat?
that's an easy one.
google is an ad company, their main customers are the people who buy ads, pretending you need a toilet seat let's them charge toilet seat makers more to "target" you
I always wonder whether we're getting it backwards.
Like, did you see ads for kayaks because you had that conversation about kayaking, or did you have the conversation because an ad company/social network decided it was time for you to get into kayaking?
Honestly this is scarier, and harder to understand. But I suspect it to be the case
Should be legally mandated in the surveillance environment we are in.
I'm pretty sure fairphone has that hardwired killswitch
Illegal in Germany. You may not record conversations, if you try to enter something like that as evidence you'll get punished as well.
I suspect there are many countries with laws like that, and if your phone actually disables the feature when you enter them or just let's you hang to dry...
I wonder if there's a legal loophole here? Specifically this works by transcribing "important conversations" into text, it's not actually storing .mp3 recordings. Obviously still disgusting and I hate it.
The legal loophole is Google can afford to pay the fine. They make more money breaking ze to law than they do following they law
This right here. Companies like Google effectively have infinite money and it's not a big deal for them to pay off the (usually miniscule) fines that they get hit with.
Not a lawyer, but as far as I got it, the storing isn't the punishable part, the recording is.
You can't have security cameras filming public spaces (like the road in front of your house). Even if its dummies, as people couldn't tell the difference whether the camera actually films them or not.
It's easy to imagine scenarios where something like this could be useful. Sometimes very, very useful. "Hey Google, I spent the last 20 minutes speaking to a police officer, be sure to keep and transcribe all that."
But no one's going to trust it (no one should trust it) because it's offered by a big tech company. "Of course this new service is designed to be used against us," we correctly assume.
Google: sorry, we work for the police, so that audio was not recorded.
This is where I'm at.
I've got a really bad memory. Ever since seeing Iron Man (I was never into the comics), I've dreamed of having a JARVIS-esque virtual assistant, something that could be omnipresent in my life to document and recall and remind and suggest and...
I'd be willing to pay for it, too. $100-$150 a month, maybe more, would be well worth it to keep my life from spiraling, like it has a tendency to do. But it would have to be my data. Never used for anything but myself. And that's just unacceptable to the Tech Bros.
With self-hosted LLMs continuing to get better and cheaper, maybe this will happen in my lifetime. 🤞
Big Brother Google is always listening, and probably would sell anything they've recorded to make a buck.
Maybe a lot of people in 2-party consent required jurisdictions should write in to google to state that they explicitly decline to consent to being recorded by google's bullshit
No fucking thank you 😒
The biggest douchbags in the world, besides billionaires, are the people who still use Google—including Gmail and chromium based browsers.
Are you a douchebag? Let me hear your crybaby bullshit.
(Not you OP)
Personally, I think the real douchebags are web devs who only build and test for chromium based browsers, making some critical tools completely unusable on Firefox/Linux systems. Looking at you, Chase.com.
Really, anyone who develops third-party software that entrenches monopolies.
Yeah, I use Chase on Firefox every month with no issues.
You’re probably just out of date. I had some issues recently on Waterfox, realized I was running a not-super-new version, and things worked great after I updated the flatpak.
It' s easy to dismiss everyone as "douchebag" if they don't align with your world views.
The world view that privacy invasion is a bad thing.
It's almost like true douchebags are the ones who are completely unaware of how the real world works and think everyone in the world should warp their worldview around what they think is personally most important.
The real world of supporting privacy invasion?
Guess what that makes you ;)
Were you a total loser before?
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Reason n+1 for me being thankful for switching to GrapheneOS.
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