Google is Working on a Recall Feature for ChromeOS
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In an interview this week, a Google vice president said that the firm was considering adding a feature like Microsoft Recall to ChromeOS.
  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    81·
    13 days ago

    Don’t worry, they’ll kill the project after naming it Chrome Recall, Google Recall, Google Watcher, GWatch (with chat), Chat&Watch, Google Watch (new) in the span of a year.

    • Possibly linux
      OPEnglish
      26·
      13 days ago

      They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      71·
      13 days ago

      Nah, they’ll kill it after a year due to hard drive costs. Enough screenshots at a resolution high enough to know wtf you’re looking at and still have vaguely usable data would be absurd.

      I could see it rebranded for enterprise usage for businesses and schools though, at an extra cost.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        4·
        12 days ago

        If they compress screenshots like Microsoft does, or like Instagram does (73% quality JPG), they can store 4 screenshots in the space of a regular 100% quality JPG, which means 90-100 KB per. Assuming a screenshot every 10 minutes, in a span of 8 hour computing per day, each day takes up a mere 5 MB. This is close to what SOG/Mutahar demonstrated on YouTube recently, 8 MB per day. A month of screenshots is merely 250 MB. And this does not even account for MS having a LLM model to sort through screenshots and discard useless ones, which might give roughly 30% more efficiency. We are looking at about 1.2 GB storage for 6 months of screenshots.

        Recall allocates 25 GB on 256 GB storage, so that is 10 years of screenshots. If MS decides they can ramp up speed of screenshots and grab even more information.

  • fluckx@lemmy.world
    39·
    13 days ago

    Windows: does something privacy invading bad

    Google: why didn’t I think of that? Hold my beer

    • Possibly linux
      OPEnglish
      613·
      11 days ago

      At this point Microsoft is much worse. At least Google stuff is usable

      I use my personal Nextcloud since I left all of Google a few years ago.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
    18·
    13 days ago

    I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:

    “I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

    That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
      2·
      13 days ago

      I can imagine those guys arguing about “legitimate interests” because data that isn’t monetised is worthless or something.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      I know we’re all thinking it, but people paying attention feel that way because… it’s creepy, it’s not useful, it’s not something they initiated, and they don’t get a clear benefit from it.

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
    11·
    13 days ago

    but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

    Well, why do it then?

  • kbal@fedia.io
    81·
    13 days ago

    WTF Google, did you really feel that gemini was such a threat that you had to usurp its name?