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/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation. (community.e.foundation)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  • they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services

  • replace all the proprietary not at all Secure Services from Google, with.... Drumroll please.... Proprietary and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.

  • They are For-profit

  • and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, even if they weren't doing that, the developer response there is enough to make me avoid your product. People pointing out your lies is not "harassment".

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    The feature can be turned off. But the lack of upfront communication about it, and the developer's failure to even acknowledge people's concern about how proxying doesn't prevent OpenAI or the US Government deanonymizing your voice recordings, are quite worrying.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are already several keyboards that can handle text to speech without sending your data to the internet. FUTO Voice Input comes with models preloaded. Transcribro does this and it's open-source.

    Why settle for worse?

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fuckin yikes. I thought they were supposed to be decent for privacy. I really appreciate this info.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah, so the paranoid folks at Graphene OS WERE RIGHT!

    You can never be "too paranoid" if they ARE, in fact, out to get you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's not a matter of being paranoid and the GrapheneOS project members are not paranoid. It is simply a matter of Murena/eOS/Gael Duval making claims about their products that are misleading, false, and harmful to users.

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