• 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
  • Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    25 days ago

    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)

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      25 days ago

      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”.