On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 07:34:37PM -0600, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
Sam, Thank you. I wonder if the same is true in Chrome, which some of my friends use from their Windows(tm) installs.
Yeah, it's totally in chrome, which is not free software. From the article: # The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser. # But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed # with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is # considered to be “black box” Because apparently having your browser automatically download modules that turn whatever computer one is using into a device which transmits audio input across the internet, is something that non-free software users consider acceptable. :sigh: -- sam