| ▲ | bandrami 6 hours ago |
| I still don't understand how otherwise sensible people can have an Alexa or Google Home. Like what part of that seems like a good idea to them? |
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| ▲ | Johnny555 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Having an Alexa or Google Home doesn't seem any worse (or even less worse) than carrying a phone around everywhere I go. If you're worried that the device can be hacked to listen to you full-time (or that the provider is lying about it only listening to you after it hears the wake word), you should be worried about your phone for the same reason. Plus my Alexa isn't going to give google a map of everywhere I travel so they can see where I work, eat, shop, etc. |
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| ▲ | tokioyoyo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ability to “Hey Google, play Spotify” in every room and shower is pretty great. That’s literally the only reason I’ve been using it for 5+ years. Oh, and it was practically free. |
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| ▲ | ulrikrasmussen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is still unthinkable to me. Trading that much privacy for a little bit of convenience? How does it not make you uncomfortable to know that every conversation in your house is live streamed to someone else's computer? | | |
| ▲ | whilenot-dev an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Not even just for my own sake, but for the sake of my guests as well. Unthinkable, because it's highly dystopic. If it wasn't for all that Science Fiction literature and philosophy that warns people about it, the Stasi wasn't too long ago either. | |
| ▲ | bandrami 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yeah I'm definitely in the "I keep my laptop powered down and in a Faraday cage" camp so I guess a lot of these products aren't really aimed at me. | |
| ▲ | tokioyoyo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Honestly? I don’t care enough about that. I’ve simplified my life to a degree where I’m not depended on anything, nor I get that much ads anywhere. So it’s just a life built around conveniences and focusing on things I care about. | | |
| ▲ | whilenot-dev 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > I’m not depended on anything Yet you mention Google and Spotify in one command. Independence seems to be something different for me. Even thinking about tools, maintenance and the repairs over the years... convenience and independence are closely related, and privacy is at least just a welcoming side effect. | |
| ▲ | ares623 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Would it feel any different if your Google Home recordings were streamed to me, an individual, directly? |
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| ▲ | askvictor 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I used mine for two things: setting a timer while cooking, and adding things to my shopping list, again, while cooking. I still miss that second feature a bit since I unplugged it, but it isn't too big of a deal |
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| ▲ | croes 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Convenience. Same with AI, the same people who fought against Google and Microsoft‘s data collecting now throw everything on data but the kitchen sink at their AI services. |
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| ▲ | bandrami 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is such a weird thing to wrap my head around. I don't even use Bluetooth. |
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