Comment by ghjfrdghibt
1 month ago
Every time one of these articles pops up about this sort of behaviour but one of the big tech companies, I'm always struck by the differences in the comments you get. I wonder if Google would be getting the benefit of the doubt like apple is currently getting were Google to implement the exact same thing as an opt-out feature?
It doesn’t seem odd to me. I’m more suspicious of Google’s motives and am even more suspicious of companies like TikTok, Amazon, Xiaomi, and Facebook. There’s a privacy spectrum.
I think sometimes the reactions are different because the facts are different. Your counterfactual seems less likely to me than eg Google photos analysing and indexing each image.
A short while back, Google implemented what I call "Constantly Opt-Out". Google Photos frequently prompting you to "backup those photos to ...".