Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@Mistonas in fairness most people have no idea, they don't follow this kind of news so it never reaches them.  The media could cover it but you know that's not happening anymore.

[kaasbaas@mastodon.africa]

@campuscodi oh no! the obvious, predictable and predicted thing has come to pass!
if only somebody had warned us!

*faints dramatically onto day bed*

This timeline is so bloody stupid.

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@campuscodi serves people right for using Chrome. Been saying it for years, but people are like "no, everyone uses it, blah blah"... and unlike Edge you can't even use the excuse that it's been pre-installed. Using Chrome is a choice.

[erwinrossen@mas.to]

@TheStoneDonkey @Mistonas Even if you tell people, they don't care. Maybe they need to hear it from multiple angles and repeatedly, but just knowing about it is not enough to give up the comfortable life.

[koh_kun@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi Google: Guys no, it's just our new offering "Local+". It gathers info locally and just "re-localizes" it to another location that is more local to me and my clients, that's all! Nothing remotely fishy (hehe) about this at all!

[iveyline@mastodon.nz]

@campuscodi Google are like stalkers and thieves. They have no respect for their users.

[wmd@chaos.social]

@TheStoneDonkey @Mistonas was 'we didn't know' not always the excuse of the masses?

Education is more than a privilege; it's also an responsibility to society.

With power comes responsibility, can't do one without the other.

[fabiosantoscode@mastodon.social]

@koh_kun @campuscodi it only localizes the energy spend while keeping the profitable data stream coming. That's sneaky.

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@campuscodi
Anyone still using Chrome deserves everything they get.

[kerplunk@mastodon.scot]

@campuscodi
Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local.
Und DGSVO.

EU Schläft weiter und lässt Be Evil Co weiter Bürger Rechte Misachten.

EU Still soundly asleep and letting be evil company google get away with stealing citizens data.

Android und Play store sind usa espionage tools.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@campuscodi

"Do no evil"

now:

"Do maximum evil"

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@campuscodi I mean, duh

[leeloo@c.im]

@campuscodi
How did that line get in therein the first place?

It's Google. Sending your data to their servers is what they do.

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@erwinrossen @TheStoneDonkey @Mistonas I, who have a moderately good grasp of the problem at hand, and yet was surprised the other day that websites have access to your phone's inclinometer, can barely make an informed decision about my privacy here. I was degoogled for a few years, and it was quite a pain, TBH.

A normal person can't. make. an. informed. decision. It is simply out of their grasp unless they choose to spend every waking minute gathering information solely about this problem.

[radekcrlik@witter.cz]

@campuscodi how is this even legal...

[cedo@mastodon.nl]

@mcr314 @campuscodi That's quite doable, see https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/hoe-bevrijd-je-een-chromebook/

[isocat@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi google cant help themselves lol

[erwinrossen@mas.to]

@vonxylofon @TheStoneDonkey @Mistonas You put it stronger than I did, but I think I actually agree with you.