Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS
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In an interview this week, a Google vice president said that the firm was considering adding a feature like Microsoft Recall to ChromeOS.
  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    81·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      71·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • fluckx@lemmy.world
    39·
    4 months ago

    Windows: does something privacy invading bad

    Google: why didn’t I think of that? Hold my beer

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      614·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        At least Google stuff is usable

        Briefly. I applaud your de-Googling. More of us need to do that…

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      30·
      4 months ago

      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.

        • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          yep, easily the best netbooks are chromebooks without chrome.

          i wish we’d see another pixelbook tho. my battery poofed and nothing on the market comes close.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          17·
          4 months ago

          The fact Linux folk prefer to count their market share at 2% rather than be associated with Chrome OS should tell you how far it went off track.

  • Gallardo994
    28·
    4 months ago

    I still don’t understand who the fuck asked for such a feature.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
    16·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
      2·
      4 months ago

      I can imagine those guys arguing about “legitimate interests” because data that isn’t monetised is worthless or something.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
    11·
    4 months ago

    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?

  • kbal@fedia.io
    81·
    4 months ago

    WTF Google, did you really feel that gemini was such a threat that you had to usurp its name?