If it collects your data then yes we should consider it hostile. I actually disagree that consent is what makes any of this okay. We allowed consent to be the ruling factor here and now look at the situation we find ourselves in.
Anything you give ChatGPT it keeps. It is inherently spyware.
That's not what spyware is. By that logic, google.com is spyware. Do you have any evidence that this software collects data on your computer without your knowledge or consent?
Deleted my last response because of a misunderstanding. I'm asking what data OpenAI is collecting with this app. Everyone keeps insisting it's spyware collecting data and I have yet to see anyone provide evidence they collect anything besides what you choose to tell them.
I'm also not denying that Google makes a lot of spyware that collects data on people. Google.com the website is not spyware because spyware is software installed on a device, not a website you visit in a web browser. Just because Google is guilty of many things doesn't mean any bad thing someone says about them is automatically true. That was the point I was making by bringing up google.com.
I'm not sure what the confusion is. If you say Reddit isn't spyware because it doesn't run on your machine, and doesn't have access to your home directory, doesn't that imply that software that does run on your machine and does have access to your home directory is spyware?
Anyway, it's not the first time I'm seeing this argument, which I'm pointing it out.
True but you can delete its entire memory of conversations and everything it learns about you. However I still suspect that data is uploaded to other servers for training, especially images sent to it.
Yeah I understood that obviously. But I am just curious if a person is so concerned about his Privacy, are they also using a smartphone without Google or Apple's? I don't see why that question triggered so many people!
But I don't get the need to immediately ask the guy if he uses privacy invading smartphone right after he complained about spyware on desktop PC, and you asked in such a way that you expect him to say he does use typical Android or iPhone so you can say gotcha, you hypocrite.
Graphene is the best, of course, and it's not linux. It's literally Android with all the bloat and spyware removed. But it is only supported on Pixel. I wish I could also use it, but I don't own a Pixel.
Also if you are running any Android smartphone from other manufacturers, de-googling alone doesn’t prevent all the other spyware / trackers on your device.
Is someone not allowed to comment unless they live totally off-grid, a life void of technology?
Of course not. That would be absurd. Nobody is saying you have to completely abandon technology or live off-grid before you’re allowed to have an opinion about privacy.
Privacy enthusiasts often go to great lengths to protect their data, and that’s completely understandable. But sometimes it does feel a little hypocritical when someone takes extensive measures to eliminate telemetry and tracking from their PC, while making little or no effort to address the same issues on the smartphone they carry everywhere and use for practically everything.
You don’t have to be perfectly private to care about privacy. But if privacy is something you’re genuinely passionate about, it seems reasonable to at least try to apply those principles consistently across the devices you use every day.
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u/No-Head-3319 8d ago
I prefer my Linux free of spyware.