Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google

Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by lolc on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:39AM (#14104925)

I laughed. Who watches burger ads and has a Google Listening Device installed?

By the time this shit becomes useful, it will be able to recognize my voice, like any good servant. And it will not be tethered to the cloud.

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by lithos on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:24AM (#14105873)

No company will give up an information vacuum in a busy living space. And if a company did they would just get acquired by a company that would change the software and TOS to become an information vacuum.

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by lolc on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:23AM (#14106168)

What do you mean by information vacuum?

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by fixermark on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:44AM (#14106308)

A device designed to passively harvest as much information as it can.

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by lolc on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:45PM (#14108633)

Ah ok. Yes it's our job to let these companies go out of business.

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by fixermark on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:12PM (#14110533)

Interesting. Why?

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by lolc on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:22AM (#14113118)

Because it's an invasion of privacy.

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Re:Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google by autotypo on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:40AM (#14106744)

Almost everyone in a bus station waiting area with 24/7 TV/wifi, for example.

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