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#131

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

Sounds like you got some nice spyware for the Chinese government.

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#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hence the inclusion of the statistics for the United States also.

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Please don't post this sort of thing here. Nationalistic and gender generalizations turn into flamewars and we're trying to avoid that on this site.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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#136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't provide a direct citation but I worked on image detection shopping for Kakao[1] and can say from personal observation that at least in Korea these features are far more popular (and ridiculously profitable) among women. According to Forbes women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing decisions in the US[2] so I can't imagine it's that rare there either, but I could be wrong and this could be an entirely east…

But South Korea is a much more gender-divided country where women go shopping and men go shooting.

I think you just described a lot of other countries such as America and Canada.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The next version: When you touch an item in a photo you automatically buy it. There is supposedly a way to see that this is happening and cancel it, but that part of the interface isn't intuitive and attempts to cancel more often result in additional purchases. This cannot be turned off, and the new phone can't be used in the first place until you set up credit card billing. It also seems to trigger "automatically" a…

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

Stop. Do you mean that the fridge has Google Photos app running? Or do you mean that your phone is not locked when given to the enterprising toddler in question?

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#140

Some frustrating with this game comes from the slider resetting when moving too fast. With debug touch points enabled I can see that I never leave the path, but it still resets. This is exasperated on Firefox where rendering seems to be slow resulting in constant resets.

You should be used to high difficulty if you're using Firefox on mobile.

No, I'm used to low difficulty, high speed, because I can run uBlock Origin on mobile Firefox. It makes the web so much easier and snappier, compared to Chrome, even on a fast 5G connection.
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