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Google lens asking me to "donate" them my pictures (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So I opened Google Lens for the first time in years to identify a logo, and got prompted by this. Thank you but no thank you

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[-] TooMuchVanced@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Since we all no that Google's products aren't privacy friendly at all what privacy friendly alternatives are there to Google Lens?

[-] ownsauce@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Lentil Translate for Google Translate
deepL moblie apps for Google Lens. It has the real time camera translations (you may need to pay for a Pro plan to get the image/camera translations)

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