Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.
I have a galaxy. I disabled the Galaxy AI. I disabled the Google AI on my phone, and I blocked Google search AI. I disabled Microsoft AI. I think ATT has one that listens in on calls to warn you of a call being a scam, but I haven’t figured out how to disable that. Many of my calls are privileged under atty/client privilege, so have someone or something else in on that risks waving that. I want to disable it, but I don’t know how. I tried to disable Yahoo’s email AI. But, now there is yet more AI for me to disable?
Dear tech companies, please stop shoving AI down my throat. I really don’t want it.
At that point I’d just get a dumb phone for calls and a tablet with data only SIM for the rest.
Do I want my face in ads? No. Not at all.
Would I want this same tech used to character swap myself into movies, or just swap actors in whatever? …okay yeah that might be kinda fun novelty.
“They’re a business and they need to make money.” - useful idiots
Not even useful IMO, just idiots.
Yet more discrimination against faceless people
You get ads, you get ads, everyone gets ads!
- Samprah.
Look under your chair… It’s an ad!!
Don’t they know how ugly the common people are. I’m not gonna buy something with an ugly guy in the ad. We ain’t all plastic surgery Korean like Samsung home base.
Meh. I just got a phone for free from some company I never heard of.
Best phone I ever had.
Was it apple? I just heard about them last week but they seem expensive
Lol, nah.
This one is Orbic.
I hate everything about this title.
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.
You could just use a phone not made by a major manufacturer.
I have one from Orbic and it’s great.
Do Orbic devices* run anything aside from stock android?
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
It used to be that phone technology improved relatively quickly, and a 2 year old phone was significantly worse than the latest and greatest. Now, not so much. I use a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on the latest tech. The camera is great, certainly more than good enough for me, and the phone is responsive and does everything I need it to do, and it’s 3+ generations old. I see no need to spend $1000+ on a new phone.
And that’s their choice to. But some people are sick of planned obsolescence and wish to use their phones for as long as the hardware doesn’t give.
Ah, more ads. Exactly what the consumer asked for, right?
I swear, the rest of my life will just be educating my peers on how consumerist rhetoric does not serve their interests.
Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?
…subscription services? For everything?
The other option is bombing kids.
The other option is creating a reliable, high quality product that people want and creates value for the user. This was how most businesses operated before Jack Fucking Welch.
But it’s easier to force slop, ads, and slop-made ads on people.
LOL. New phone cases are going to have little privacy sliders to go over the cameras.
I have one for my pixel 7. I also put a small square of electrical tape over my front camera. I know I sound paranoid, but I just don’t like a camera staring at me while I’m looking at my phone. I also rarely take selfies so a front camera is pretty much pointless for me.
That’s… A really good idea
Time to redesign my phone case
Someone at Samsung submitted a user story only to troll, and it worked “I need you to drain my phone battery and data plan for ads when I dont even look at it”
Well I guess I’ll never buy another Samsung.
