• GolfNovemberUniform
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    5 months ago

    It uses OpenAI for translation. Spyware (unless it uses the DDG implementation or something).

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      5 months ago

      How would the DDG implementation be less than a privacy concern? It’s just adding a middle layer. It may only lump queries together in a larger pool of seemingly undistinguishable users. Am I missing anything else?

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        5 months ago

        They made a deal with the AI providers to not use the data for model training and it has some open-source models now too (though idk what providers do they use).

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      5 months ago

      Spyware because of a feature you don’t even need to use? Geez.

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        It violates privacy and sometimes copyright of the user whose content you’re trying to translate. And you can just press it accidentally.