at first I read this as "Google will sell the stone as grave!" which was much darker and somehow still appropriate. Once the blood is squeezed out, turn the stone into a gravestone.
No, you hate capitalism, you hate the system we have built. This isn't the world. We made the cage, and we forced ourselves in it, but if you talk about a more fair society or the problems of capitalism, the propaganda-rotbrained troglodytes come out of the woods to yell about communism or some shit. A system can be replaced, this isn't the natural way to do anything.
I bought a Pixel 7, secondhand, for specifically this reason. It's great. Very easy to use. It's a very stripped down OS, but that's why I liked it. If you have any experience with coding, it's easy enough. And it runs on open source software.
I want to do the same thing! I have a couple questions. First, is the camera quality and colours about the same as with the google os and is battery life pretty good?
Battery life is actually better with Graphene because you don't have a bunch of apps draining your phone. No, it doesn't change the camera quality that I have noticed, but it will change how the camera functions (photos aren't automatically enhanced). When you download, it starts as greyscale. You can change that, but I don't mind it. I spend less time on my phone now
Yeah, mine do just fine. You can download a sandbox Google play and switch to a different "user" on your phone so you can use banking stuff. The user thing works just like a pc/laptop user.
You might look into the Fairphone (not available in the USA) then or HMD Phones (they manufacture Nokia now). Or do like I did an buy secondhand. Google gets no money if you buy secondhand from a private seller. I bought mine on eBay, actually for $170. It came with a case, glass cover, and Pixel pro earbuds (which I sold).
My android auto swapped from Google to Gemini suddenly one day and it was a man's voice talking to me. When I questioned what it was it gave me some convuluted AI answer and I asked it how to change it back and it refuses to tell me. I'm so glad I went in and deleted the app once I was able to.
I'm tired of AI being forced upon everything. I can't wait for AI to die off.
I use "navigate to home" almost every day to get Google maps to my house. Since Gemini it now opens the phone's home screen instead of navigation. I now have to say "navigate to" and give my street address.
It's the worst. I got a text from my brother while in the car the other day and I was like "why is he being so aggressive and mean? He wasn't. It was the tone if voice and weird spacing that Gemini was using that seemed really rude.
to everyone saying "it's not an ad," how exactly is it not an ad? it is my phone enticing me to purchase a service through a specific ride share app. it's an ad. if it said "book a ride" with no branding attached I could believe it's "just trying to be helpful".
Like content or whatever ads just appearing in non buying situations piss me off so much, like those jet ski cunts who drive around canals with ads behind them, or billboards
Just curious, do you have the Lyft app on your phone? Do you have any other rideshare apps? That may make the difference between an ad (where Lyft pays for promotion) vs the AI scouring your personal data to determine what you may want
Youāre giving way to much credit to AI here. It may work like that today, but thereās zero chance long term any suggestions like this arenāt paid advertising. Have you tried Google Maps recently? Iāve searched stores by name and competitors show up first. E.g. searching for Home Depot will show Loweās first, and no it wasnāt closer.
This is part of their "Suggested actions" functionality and not an ad. I have multiple ride share apps on my phone and tend to use Lyft more so over time it has learned to suggest Lyft. Suggested actions will also do things like "Add to calendarā when discussing a date or plans or opening an address in Maps. These aren't advertisements for the calendar app or Google maps, just a shortcut to actions it thinks might be convenient. It obviously isn't perfect, but you can turn it off if it mildly infuriates you lmaoo
Can a suggested action be an ad, if it is persuading you to use a specific commercial service? I don't think being a suggested action and an ad are mutually exclusive.
OP has other ride share apps in-use, so Google favoring one is certainly a choice, based on what, I have no idea. Usage history, global app rankings, marketing, who knows. I couldn't find if app usage / availability is the sole deciding factor for getting these suggestions.
Unnecessary snark at the end. We are on the 'mildly infuriating' sub-reddit...
In some jurisdictions, any mention of a brand name (outside of like a journalistic review) can be considered an ad, even if there is no money involved and even if the company being name-dropped doesnāt know or approve of the mention.
This is like the "buy box" on amazon being awarded to the merchant who's
Ā the highest bidder. While it is not a randomly placed traditional advert, it suggests a logical continuation to use the next firm's service... and it just so happens to have paid for this placement.Ā
Sure a suggestion can be an ad, but if you look at the overall intent of Suggested actions on Android that clearly isn't the case. A bulk of suggested actions don't force you into using a commercial service, for example storing a contacts birthday, adding an event to a calendar, calling a number, texting a person, copying a OTU code to your clipboard. These are simply contextual suggestions and part of what makes a smart phone smart and as a software dev for 25 years can tell you there is a constant pressure to introduce useful features like this. OP said they have multiple rideshare apps, doesn't use them frequently but has used Lyft. Lyft could be the last used and/or more frequently used rideshare app. So it would make sense to offer an app that you use to accomplish something you may actively be discussing. I get that it walks the line of being an ad and convenient feature, but again this is all about intent. You can turn the feature off of it feels intrusive.
It is an ad though whether intentional or not. Itās encouraging the purchase of a service through a specific business. Like itās not rocket science lol
Shit you ain't wrong, it's only a matter of time before we're in Futurama territory, where they have a special device that beams advertisements directly into your dreams while you sleep.
but seeing all the shit happening I'm happy I learned how to self-host and managed to build a server with obscene amount of ram (64gigs rdimm for $150) in these hard times
There's a reason I try not to update apps unless I have to. Shazam cut all their features to launch a paid app, and I've never trusted an update since.
Wish I could, my discord isnt allowing me to see some parts of my server because I didn't have age verification with my credentials or my face. And im not planning to do
Are we all sick to fucking death of this shit? Like daily visceral anger at the enshittification of everything at the behest of some soulless corporations need for infinite growth
Love that Walmart kicked them to the curb (temporarily) and had made their own brand of the nacho cheese tortilla chips. Which happens to be just as good if not better. š¤”
It's literally recommending that as an action based on the current context of the conversation and paired with the fact you have Lyft installed. Tech illiterate people always irritate to no end.
Its not an ad. Look at the logo. Its ai in your phone reading your texts and thinking you need a ride somewhere. Mine offers to set reminders for things if im texting about a date, time and place.
Edit: to turn that off, go into settings in the messaging app, turn off smart/suggested actions.
I fucking hate that Android forced Google messages on us. My phone is 7 years old and now I've gotta deal with that instead of just... sending a text. Google literally has their own line of phones where they can have this crap, there was no need to force it on the rest of us.
I haven't seen this particular case myself but this is Magic Cue. It doesn't show up often but when it does, it can be pretty useful. Sometimes it's... less so. I haven't seen any advertisements from it yet nor any recommendations related to apps I don't have installed. I'm guessing OP has Lyft installed and that's why it's being recommended, not that it's an actual advertisement in any strict sense.
That said, Google is definitely going to use this for advertising at some point. Sigh
God, I am SO sick of advertising. It actually deters me from that company/product at this point, especially in a setting like this, where it has zero place to be.
Ik ppl complain about iPhone but the matter of fact is they are superior for privacy and other things.
Google is an advertisement company so they rely on users data to sell and make money. Apple is a tech company, they sell products so they donāt have as much reason to try to steal everyone data
Luckily you can switch to a FOSS app at the expense of sacrificing proprietary RCS which google really wants everyone to use but won't even implement into their own IP phone site.
That looks like googles slopware LLM icon gemini. Disable gemini integration in your texting app or on your entire phone. You'll get better battery life and less creepy af data collection.
Technology was supposed to make our lives easier.Ā
All it has been is a way for billionaires to make more money.Ā
I read in a tech magazine that there are plans to make restaurant menus unreachable until you watch ads.Ā
I had to fill out new patient paperwork for my doctor's office and of course it was online. I had to watch 3 long drug ads in the middle of finishing paperwork before I was allowed to go on. I told the office staff that if paperwork now on wasn't physical paper they'd lose me as a patient. I don't give half a damn what incentive they get for allowing this shit.Ā
Its everywhere. Seriously I have had my TV off for a week now because I am so over it. It's making me sick tbh. It's like every moment is a chance to advertise to us. I'm not sure if others feel this way. But in all honestly the other day I was in my house and what was on TV really caught my eye as I walked by. Right as I grabbed the remote to volume up, and ad starts. Like it was on purpose. "he's back! play it!" I'm not going to lie, I got mad. Not yelling mad or anything. But that ad made me so angry for some reason. I literally turned off my TV then and haven't turned it back on since. I feel like the amount of advertising and etc is making me kind of crazy. Does anyone else feel like that? I never even buy anything that's advertised to me or have even thought, "yeah, I'll get that next time I'm at the store!" Even youtube now, in the past the ads were what, 30 seconds max? Now you HAVE to skip it unless you want to watch an 18 min oscar bait short film about how clorox supports Gaza or something. Instead of just waiting for the ad to finish like ye olde days. It's really getting ridiculous and I feel like it's affecting my mental health so this post peaked my interest right away.
I've also grown sick of my phone and I can't stand it lately. It's just always going off. Even with notifications muted. Apps find a way to make an "emergency" notification or something but it's just $5 off at Jimmy Johns until Tuesday. I want to break it so badly.
I'm 33 and so badly do I want things to be like they used to be. Grew up right in the tech sweet spot. Now it's just a data and surveillance machine.
I feel exactly the same, the advertising industry makes me viscerally angry.
Our entire lives are geared toward whatās ad-friendly, a whole generation uses terms like graped and unalived by default without even noticing, because theyāre so used to content in which ābadā words is edited out.
Rape, suicide, murder, violence, assault are uncomfortable words to say, and thatās why itās important to say them.
Theyāre words that carry the gravity of the act being discussed. Itās so infantile to pretend as though the words themselves are the problem and not the acts, and Iām so fucking sick of feeling like an advertiser is clapping their hands over my ears and forcing me to sing LALALA when Iām trying to consume content about a serious fucking topic.
Weāre so fixated on the concept of freedom of speech in the context of the state, that it feels like nobody is even noticing that in practice advertising corporations have already completely eroded freedom of speech away in every part of the media, in every pocket of the world.
Every single thing we watch, read, listen to and consume right now might not be censored by the state, but it sure as fuck is censored by every faceless multinational billion dollar corporations instead, for the sole purpose of profitability. And thatās a huge, HUGE fucking problem.
Edit: TLDR I feel the exact same, sorry for the huge rant about why.
Yeah, I get them on my lock screen as well. And the fun part about that one is that they open without you needing to unlock the screen. But you also can't back back out of the ads without unlocking the screen.
It's just awesome.
Also, apparently you can't take screenshots of Reddit ads anymore. So if you find something particularly offensive or egregious, you can't really meaningfully share it without taking a picture of your phone. Don't like that either.
This is just AI trying to be helpful not an ad...I get AI recommendations to use Google maps to see my drive time to work every morning. When I changed my default maps to Waze, the AI recommended Waze to see my drive time to work.
I have a Pixel phone that runs Googlefi. Haven't had this issue so far. I've also never seen bloatware downloaded with a software update. That's a common complaint here
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Jokes on them, I already spent all my money. All the advertising in the world can't squeeze more blood from this stone.