Do you believe that the affiliate scam only started when PayPal acquired Honey?

Are the Feds actually this smooth-brained? I mean, I know they have to maintain the appearance of control, so his words make sense from that perspective. But surely they have to be aware, the very backdoors they originally forced down our throats are EXACTLY WHAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM NOW. These geniuses who purportedly protect American citizens, are either woefully inept, lacking basic understanding of how data security actually works, or LYING with malice. Which do you think it is?

Content filters! I’ve got them for Trump, Elon, “Slammed”, “Dragged”, “Blasted” and the question mark, because news headlines in the form of questions can almost always be answered with the word “no” and are not worth my time.

Obviously, don’t upload any photos to the demo site that you wouldn’t want shared. That’s pretty basic internet 101. The point is to demonstrate the amount and types of information Google infers from its users’ data. So feed it a pic you don’t care about, or try with the supplied images.

Best part? The description supplied here is probably a limited version of all the information that Google infers from each of your photographs. It would make sense to ask for a short 3 paragraph summary of key observations to fit within API limits. On Google’s end? No reason for such limits to exist. So they infer even more from your data than this website can show. And they run this kind of compute on everything you give them.

They “claim” that they don’t sell or share this data. Do you trust them?

You might say you have nothing to hide, but you also don’t get to control the shifting definitions of what’s acceptable. Today you’re fine. Tomorrow you’re labeled a political dissident because of the evidence of Wrongthink that Google happily supplied to the government without your knowledge. Especially in light of the incoming administration, this is an important discussion to have.

Here is a list of FOSS Google Photos alternatives. Immich looks particularly good to me.

You think Microsoft doesn’t give a direct uplink to America’s thought police?

Why is this?

Paid version does both access the web and cite its sources

Source?

Your comment was great, until the last part. That’s terrible advice. DO mess with things you don’t understand, until you understand them!

I’m trying to imagine voluntarily buying a device that all but prohibits you from choosing the software you run on it. A limit of 2-3 apps, which have to be re-signed weekly by a desktop server, to me that doesn’t count as “supporting sideloading.” Maybe technically. What a joke.

“Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!” -Android users

Wait… You can sideload on ios? Since when?

Yep! The police, being fascists, HATE this.

What?

Pretty sure I hugged it to death with the post. Was working fine for the last couple of days.

Ok cool, but I’ll still support this initiative, because as FUTO states, a keyboard should not connect to the internet.

You’re missing the whole anonymization layer they’ve implemented here. If actual typing data is used, the app can’t guarantee user control of the data after opt-in. The data they’re using here is not private user typing data to begin with.

I’d recommend listening to Louis Rossman’s talks on the subject.

Data is data! You’re a use case, regardless of swipe ability.

The entire point of the keyboard is that it’s not built in. The philosophy behind the organization making it says that it shouldn’t be built in.