- Reports suggest Glance is preparing to debut in the U.S. “later this year” following its pilot program with Motorola and Verizon.
- Sources state Glance will not capture data, but will instead leverage a user’s “patterns” to offer recommendations.
- Glance states it will not show ads in the U.S., opting for news stories, and it will look to offer a subscription service for "premium news
Sources state Glance will not capture data, but will instead leverage a user’s “patterns” to offer recommendations.
Those “patterns” are literally data. What a nonsensical sentence.
So it’s ads on the lock screen? Didn’t Amazon try that a decade ago with the subsidised Kindle Fire tablets?
amazon still sells the ad-supported versions of kindles. and not just the fire tablets, but the readers, too.
Any idea if they still sell well compared to the ad-free ones? Presumably if they were that successful we’d have seen other manufactures copying the idea before now, right?
We have. You can buy cheap-ass smartphones at Walmart, etc with ads baked into the OS. Lots of my folks are pretty broke living down in Louisiana and have them. If you need a phone cheap, say for example you can’t afford a real phone and you’re planning to sell some drugs, they’re some of the cheapest usable phones you can get.
Makes sense, though I don’t know if choosing a phone with all the tracking enabled is the best choice for a drug dealer
Never accused them of being smart…
you’d be surprised at how many people look for lowest price and fail to read even part of the rest of the item’s page below the item title at the top.
kindle. check.
lowest price. check.
buy now.
click-click-done.
(oops. they just got a ‘trial’ to prime, too. that takes actual reading of pages to find and click-through the cancel process before the payments start)
Yes and it was a pile of steaming hotspur.
Everything old, is new again.
Google should fucking BAN&BLOCK malware that shows ads on the lock screen but instead what they do? They fucking INVEST in that!
Don’t fret.
Things like this are #kllledbygoogle next year and some other intern will have a new product name to bolden their advert battalion.
The cycle never ends, and they don’t click on that we ain’t having it :/
Glance works to deliver recommendations to users like ads, news articles, and more on the lock screen.
How do I block it?
Glance will side with offering a subscription service where users can pay for “premium news” on their lock screens every month.
Oh, so just don’t pay for it, right?
Fortunately, you can disable Glance on the phone, but we found that the service would occasionally produce a full-screen prompt on the lock screen, encouraging you to re-enable the feature.
Oh, so more bloat using resources even when disabled.
Glance will seek to make a profit through the aforementioned subscription and if users interact with its “product of the day.”
Its literally just a venture to capture and advertise on every visible space possible.
It looks like I’ll be spending 2025 onward with Linux and a flip phone.
Universal Android Debloat for those without root (it’s just a GUI for ADB commands to disable features).
Alternatively, switch to a flashable phone and use an AOSP rom like Graphene, Lineage or DivestOS.
Yeah fuck this shit
Oh hell no. I actually thinking moving to iPhone if this becomes a reality. Fuck Google trying to put so many fucking ads down our throat.
It’s not part of Android and not even made by Google
The first paragraph refers to it as “Google-backed Indian startup Glance”. It’s not part of Android, but Google is involved
A company investing in a startup does not mean they are “involved” in any way.
The company that is programming the operating system is investing in a company that makes malware for said operating system. How they can’t be considered involved? Once they invested the $140 million, they would be less likely to consider that malware as such. They won’t block that malware with Google play protect, ignore the privacy issues that would lead to a ban on the play store, and so on.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t don’t see Apple investing even a dollar on a company that is making malware for iPhones
An investor in a company will push to make that company gain market share. As we can see here.
This isn’t a part of Google. Likely carriers will try to put it on phones you get through them especially mid-range devices. Also it can be disabled (and even uninstalled through shizuku or ADB or something)
Default setting = what 90% of users would keep
If a phone comes with this pre installed, nobody would ever uninstall it. Or even realize that the annoying ads are coming from this app. They would just think “ads everywhere, android is shit, next phone is going to be an iPhone”.
It’s worth noting that users will have the ability to disable Glance on their device once it officially arrives.
