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Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

who the fuck asked for this

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Samsung's board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

They probably saw the Virtual Try on from Google I/O and shit their pants

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Never ending capitalism

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago

That's crazy.

Anyways I'm gonna pitch never buying a Samsung phone again to the HR people if this comes true.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C'mon, juuuust a little.. 'till you no longer notice.

This is excellent.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Our entire internet ecosystem is the "frog in boiling water" metaphor.. They just keep turning the heat up.. we need to delete the entire internet and re-work it from the ground up... somehow

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I actually don't agree with this, because while Facebook, X, Amazon, Ai and Google are all the front of the internet, they still aren't all of it. The small web is still churning along with selfhosted blogs and neocities, selfhosted apps are everywhere, some, like Disroot, even open to the public.

People willingly choose to use this garbage and let it into their lives. There's millions of sites and services to see, but people stick with familiarity.

It's like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there's other restaurants everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won't be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.

Thousands of pictures of regular people's faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They're definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OK, so the people making these claims are filing a GDPR complaint, right?

Being paranoid online is not useful at all. This isn't great as it is:

We've looked over Glance's AI privacy policy, and nothing stands out as unusual for the tech industry (which still isn't good). By using the service, you agree to some tracking, including your general location, and some of that data will be shared with partners. However, this all feels a bit more creepy when a service is churning out AI images of you.

...but if you think on top of everything else they are lying about selling your personally identifiable info that is a GDPR violation (and a violation of privacy laws in multiple other territories) and you should immediately file a complaint. Because it is illegal. And yes, it will get investigated and a fine will be set. GDPR violations are constantly being flagged and fined.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can a non-EU citizen file? You may have mistaken me for someone with sane governance.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.

And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

opt-in:

Can we take all your stuff?

  1. Yes daddy
  2. Remind me tomorrow
[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where "your friend" suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Black Mirror with Rashida Jones

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The moment I see myself in an ad, I'm giving up on technology and joining the Amish.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't do that. The Amish are not good people.

https://www.grunge.com/268104/the-dark-truth-about-amish-country/

We should all be more like the actual Luddites - they destroyed technology that was being used to exploit and/or displace workers.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whelp, I guess I now own my last Samsung phone. It was a good run. I've been considering going pixel for a while so I can put graphineOS on it. This just helps me make that decision.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don't need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It's more a matter of running out the clock on my S22. When this puppy is dead, pixel is next.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I'm thick as mince and am running GrapheneOS, AND I came from 16 years of iPhones.

If I can do it, anyone can.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are techbros so bland that they really can't think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn't just 'ads'?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The other option is bombing kids.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Why would anyone opt in 😭

Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?

I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much "new = good."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Well I guess I'll never buy another Samsung.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

I was just sitting there looking at the cool art I have as a lockscreen wallpaper and im thinking, man I wish my phone would scan my face and place an ai slop image with my face badly right on my lock screen. Thank god Samsung is so in touch with what features consumers want added to their $1000 devices.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

I hate everything about this title.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is what makes me excited for Linux phones to finally become viable. Every major phone manufacturer is making their UX worse and expanding their hidden spyware for the sake of profits.

Graphene os is great but you can only install it on a Pixel. But they give extended support for older devices which is nice. HOWEVER, people are making Linux builds for even older devices, including the iphone 6. Getting a new phone after 7 years might not be necessary in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Absolutely wild clown show we're living in

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

, and so the enshitification of what once was a great phone continues.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn't like their UI.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Minority Report, the bad parts.

Edit: glad I'm using a deGoogled Android phone, can't trust manufacturers not to enshitificate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If companies don't push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.

So...what'll probably happen:

  • Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
  • A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
  • A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
  • A year will go by and it's a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of "stealing" the feature. Everyone else will despise it.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

What the fuck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's gonna be a yikes from me dawg

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fascinating stuff.

I do think there will eventually be pushback against the current oligarch model of technology, but it is likely I will be much older when it happens.

Just the nature of history. We are pretty early in the information age.

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