“Bard is not available in your country” Why do they even limit access depending on the country? It’s a chatbot, not a financial service.
Very weak posture on google. I'm starting to believe behind the scenes stories about it.
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#53“Bard is not available in your country” Why do they even limit access depending on the country? It’s a chatbot, not a financial service.
You'd imagine that we would have move on from this by this time but no. Also not available in my country. :')
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#54I am an American living in Spain, running an American company, paying US taxes. I am neither a Spanish citizen nor a permanent resident. Google decided that my accounts are Spanish and switched them. "Bard is not available in your country". My country is the USA. I wonder what's next, my American Google voice and Google Fi phone numbers so i lose US banking access? Be very scared of this Orwellian company.
FYI, If you are abroad for longer than a year, they will shutdown call and data access for your Google Fi. Learned the hard way. That said, their technical support was absolutely robotic and useless, and might as well be replaced with Bard, whatever state its in.
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#55“Bard isn’t currently supported in your country” The waiting list to the waiting list to the waiting list…
Yeah, I suspect folk who reside in perfectly civilized countries without any geopolitical hindrances to be locked out for a long while--which, given Google's usual inability to reach out across Europe, may mean we'll only have access when it's about to be cancelled.
Seems to be 'not available' in Australia.
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Same here. I wonder if using a VPN would risk me to get my Google account blocked...
Probably a big risk considering few entities are more sure of what country you are in.
lol, google will routinely still show me swedish maps results when I haven't been there in 8 years. They're notoriously bad at this, it's ridiculous.
Of course I agree that this is high-risk in that their location thingy is unstable and trigger happy enough as is, and good luck reaching a human if some system does decide to block you.
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#57“Bard is not available in your country” Why do they even limit access depending on the country? It’s a chatbot, not a financial service.
It also shows this in Canada, sigh
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#58I am an American living in Spain, running an American company, paying US taxes. I am neither a Spanish citizen nor a permanent resident. Google decided that my accounts are Spanish and switched them. "Bard is not available in your country". My country is the USA. I wonder what's next, my American Google voice and Google Fi phone numbers so i lose US banking access? Be very scared of this Orwellian company.
Other issues aside, is that actually legal? I've always been under the impression that you need to pay local taxes wherever you're working but would be delighted to be proven wrong.
You don't pay Spanish taxes if you don't derive any income from Spain and if you are less than 183 days per year in the country. If you are more than 183 days per year in the country, there's a Spanish tax treaty with the US, and you pay US taxes on your US income anyway.
And if all you have is $10mm on your checking account but no income, you don't pay any taxes anywhere.
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Laws, localization, language, the list goes on.
ChatGPT seems to be doing okay.
Let's just say Google is far more mainstream than ChatGPT. Non-tech Normies who haven't tried or heard of ChatGPT will hear about Bard trust Google and would want to try it asap.
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#60I am an American living in Spain, running an American company, paying US taxes. I am neither a Spanish citizen nor a permanent resident. Google decided that my accounts are Spanish and switched them. "Bard is not available in your country". My country is the USA. I wonder what's next, my American Google voice and Google Fi phone numbers so i lose US banking access? Be very scared of this Orwellian company.
> My country is the USA. You would prefer companies know your citizenship and immigration status, somehow verify that, and tie their services to it? And that would somehow preserve your privacy better than geolocation?
Google cant even get my language right - and its right there in my request headers. For some reason they always want to base it on geolocation.
And then, when you go to change the language, it shows all the language options in the language you are trying to translate from. So useful for people travelling to countries where they dont speak the language, or cant distinguish the characters...
Geolocation is a sucky way of deciding anything about a user.