The one I self-host shares nothing with nobody :)
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Yeah online services or apps are not worth it.
Only 30%? The only surprise here is that the number isn't higher.
It only counts if you get caught, after all
I'm surprised CoPilot isn't higher.
They just used the self reported labels on Apple‘s Appstore for this "study", who knows what a company "forgot" to put in there.
Running locally is the answer.
And it's shockingly easy nowadays, can have one up and running in 5-10 minutes
Any recommendations? Preferably a docker image.
you can find docker images for ollama and open-webui pretty much anywhere.
Nice, thanks. Although my Synology may not be as happy. Will test them out.
What ate the minimum specs? I doubt my pentium server will run it, but still good to know.
Personally I just use LMStudio, all you do is search for the model, and it downloads and installs it for you, ez as can be
What model do you run? Aren't the vram requirements pretty rough for self hosting?
I'm not who you replied to but..... I've run a bunch of models through https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile and https://ollama.com/. I'm lucky enough to have a decent video-card (24GB), but if you are willing to be a bit more paitient, or run a lower model, you'll probably be able to get it going.
Just say no to AI
Or if you need an AI, self host it.
On that note; selfhost as much as possible and run FOSS on everything!
For sure. Control your own data. Always.
The other 70% are just storing that data to sell at a later date when they need another income stream to give hungry VC investors.
Use Mistral, support European AI.
Use none, support none
You can also use ChatGPT without login.
duck.ai ?
Actually surprised chatgpt is less than average
I’m not sure how much sense it makes to complain that an AI chat bot collects so many categories of data and then highlight “user input”, which it obviously needs to function? Like how is something like DeepSeek the “middle ground” if that’s what the author thinks is the biggest problem with it? When I look at DeepSeek on the app store, it does list at least “coarse location”, so why not highlight that? DeepSeek can’t answer my questions about e.g. “restaurants nearby”, unlike e.g. ChatGPT, which comes up with a map. So that’s what I would be interested in, what DeepSeek uses my location for.
Although just in principle this kind of analysis rarely finds surprises.
If you can enter text or click on things in an online app, obviously it collects user input.
If it can refer back to previous answers, obviously it retains chat history.
If it can process pictures, obviously it collects photos if you upload any.
If it can be interacted with using voice, obviously it collects audio.
If it can answer questions about things near you, obviously it will use location data.
If there are IAPs, it better not forget that you bought those, too.
And so on.
pikachu
Leave it to google to be #1 in user data collection.
Have fun reading all my "simplify this massive function" requests I guess?
Not surprised.
make sense, gemini has been heavily pushed in its phones and other media recently
It’s a good thing I’ve never used any of them and have no intention of ever changing my mind on this.