Google returns search queries before you're done typing them? I know it autofills a lot, but that's not furnishing links.

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It furnished links. Obviously based on the photo she had just taken combined with the word "part". That's pretty sophisticated.

Realistically, I'm not going to go back to a flip phone, but I'm going to consider an iPhone. Not that I think Apple is less than evil itself, but at least it isn't driven by Google. Probably better to spread the evil out.

I have always had an issue with privacy and technology. I still do some things in a very old school way. Now I use Alexa more than I ever thought I would. Damn near every device in my house is connected to it. I know that the right hates Google but unless you go back to not carrying a phone it's going to be difficult not to have things tracked. Trying to limit the information is the only way to go unless you decide to go off the grid. It's not going to get easier either unless everything you own and drive are really old.

A spring in my refrigerator door broke. My wife took a picture of the spring with her Android phone. She went to Google and began typing in "part for Samsung Model ..." Before she had finished typing "part" links to places selling the spring appeared.

We unplugged Alexa a long time ago. If I didn't need to bet races on my phone I'd go back to something that was not Internet-enabled.

A spring in my refrigerator door broke. My wife took a picture of the spring with her Android phone. She went to Google and began typing in "part for Samsung Model ..." Before she had finished typing "part" links to places selling the spring appeared.

We unplugged Alexa a long time ago. If I didn't need to bet races on my phone I'd go back to something that was not Internet-enabled.

One of my favorite events ever is when my wife asks Alexa a question and Alexa doesn't have the answer and comes back with that "I don't understand the question" or other similar canned responses. TO watch my wife get pissed off and yell at a damned box is hilarious.

I have always had an issue with privacy and technology. I still do some things in a very old school way. Now I use Alexa more than I ever thought I would. Damn near every device in my house is connected to it. I know that the right hates Google but unless you go back to not carrying a phone it's going to be difficult not to have things tracked. Trying to limit the information is the only way to go unless you decide to go off the grid. It's not going to get easier either unless everything you own and drive are really old.

There's an option on my smart TV to name it. I named it "Google Spy Machine". Just so they know I know.

I just do not want to be bothered by a phone call or electronic interruption when out of the house doing anything. Personal preference. If I was working for or at something it would be different but I just don't like to be interrupted when I am doing something.

One of my favorite events ever is when my wife asks Alexa a question and Alexa doesn't have the answer and comes back with that "I don't understand the question" or other similar canned responses. TO watch my wife get pissed off and yell at a damned box is hilarious.

During a Christmas dinner at a friends house, I was able to get Alexa to play Slayer. The volume was pretty manageable so it took a good 3 min for one of them to actually hear "Hell Awaits" and look at me with a big eye roll.

For that...I love Alexa.

It furnished links. Obviously based on the photo she had just taken combined with the word "part". That's pretty sophisticated.

Realistically, I'm not going to go back to a flip phone, but I'm going to consider an iPhone. Not that I think Apple is less than evil itself, but at least it isn't driven by Google. Probably better to spread the evil out.

I absolutely cannot stomach the idea of getting an Alexa. As mentioned above, a smart phone is enough.

reality is a lot weirder. if what you claim is true (and it very well could be), it's not something Google accomplished. This is machine learning. For decades we tried to write if-this-then-that software code to recognize and identify what's in images. We couldn't do it. Then about 5 years ago machine learning was born. Now we feed a super computer thousands of examples, and it fucking learns to program it's own code based off the examples you give it. what your wife experience is a matrix of switches that turned on and off in a pattern that taught itself how to know what a spring looks like.

A spring in my refrigerator door broke. My wife took a picture of the spring with her Android phone. She went to Google and began typing in "part for Samsung Model ..." Before she had finished typing "part" links to places selling the spring appeared.

We unplugged Alexa a long time ago. If I didn't need to bet races on my phone I'd go back to something that was not Internet-enabled.

I don't think you "need" to bet races on your phone there Joe Orr Road DiCaro...

My place is a refuge from surveillance capitalism.

i hesitate to get a smart TV for this reason. I dont have Alexa. I dont even know what that is. Fuck Alexa.

My place is a refuge from surveillance capitalism.

Do you have cable? If so, THEY can see you.

I don't think it's any more complicated than photo recognition being used on a photo taken with a phone using Google's OS and then being acknowledged by Google's search engine. Still very sophisticated. And quite intrusive.