I’m sorry, Nawth, but I’m afraid I can’t allow you to do that.
Is there a “smart” phone which does NOT automatically calculate your position by GPS?
Aside from reading my email and remembering every last thing I searched, this technology is pretty much already out of hand.
Remember that shocking story of a young girl’s coming of age, circa 1960? I think it was like soleeka or something?
Remember that one? - the title now means underage pr0n?
Go ahead, google that name.
Then check your phone: “Police will arrive in 11:00 minutes”
I suppose so, although based on what minuscule professional interaction with him that I’ve had, he doesn’t seem creepy or strange at all.
Yeah, I turned it off on mine because of battery life, but also because it didn’t tell me useful information.
For anyone with an Android who’s been having these cards come up on your phone and you want to turn them off, go to the Google App, click on Settings, and turn Google Now off.
“Impressively creepy” is the best way I can describe that myself.
It was a novelty when it first happened to me, but now that I’m used to it I come to depend on it and it actually still gives me information that I didn’t know I needed.
Did you know that a band I like had a new album out? Neither did I until google told me it was on sale last week.
When I buy stuff online through ebay or Amazon, sometimes similar ads show up on my Facebook feed or on the side. Many times ads on random websites would have those as well. I just figured they know what pages I’m looking at and given up on that part of privacy. Its the new normal, the computer will know and share what you’ve been looking at
Creepy, but an incredibly cool feature on my droid which I now cannot live without. I have it set up to give me all sorts of useful info. My drive home can be 1 of three routes depending on traffic and the drive time can vary by 30 minues in worst cases, so my phone just tells me where to drive.
It guess its creepy until you realize it is your phone and doing things to help you and nobody is actually monitoring me of course. My life is far too mundane for anybody to care where i go, what i do or what i might google for.
Personally, I like the Google Snoop aspect. This summer I forgot where I’d parked to attend a concert. My phone knew and helped me find it.
You can also have a bit of fun with targeted adverts as well. Start googling and “shopping” random things, for example McMaster Carr pulley wheels, wheelcarts for dogs, fetish outfits, trashy lingerie, and a new Porsche. Do a build and price on as much as you can. The ads you get can be quite amusing, I regularly get ones for leather boots from Zulily and cnc plasma cutters now. Highly entertaining in it’s own way.
You joke, but one time I was looking for corsets for a girl and I kept getting banners on my browser for sex shops, ballet stores (because…leggings?), and the like
I love Google Now, but, yeah, it can be a bit creepy.
I went to my car to go to lunch not long ago, and I turned on my phone to listen to podcasts, and the card showed “10 Minutes to Chinese Buffet”. It was a place I go for lunch once a week or so. I’m surprised the card didn’t end with “you fat bastard”.