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I would say that neither corporation forcing AI on us is fair by any stretch

Already happened. It died because it turns out the AI was funneling all of your browsing data to the servers running the AI instead

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They'd be useless. Unless you trained it yourself there would 100% be a whitelist you couldn't see, or it'd be gobbling up all your data.

Google is slipping. Duck duck go is a better search engine. There are better mail systems as well. Meta is done as well.

When the leaked internal video came out about Google’s real vision, everyone said it is fake. It does not look that fake now.

disable it

Un install, delete, remove 👀

This is probably the most 'old man yells at cloud' thing about me but I hate voice assistants and they have yet to work consistently enough to be worth my time.

It is completely insane to me that something simple like "Add ____ to the grocery list" has worked and stopped working multiple times for years now. How hard is that to get right? Cannot believe such a simple action is so inconsistent.

That's my biggest gripe with Gemini; it's not a proper replacement for Google Assistant and yet it's still treated as such.

Feels like Google took at least two steps back when it comes to Gemini on Pixel devices...

I love the dedicated piracy folder lmao

They’ve stuffed it into every page in Google cloud and workspace.

I tried it in sheets one time and it literally made up fake data for my analysis. Never trusting that again.

Gemini 'messaged' me in google messages introducing itself a couple months ago. Just appeared like a normal text conversation with any other contact, but as soon as you click on it you're presented with a wall of T&Cs.

Deleted the 'conversation' and it's stayed gone; though there's an option for it in settings.

The only other place I've see it is an on-screen reminder every time I use Google Assistant. (usually just triggering home automatons)

My job uses the Google suite and it feels like it’s gotten a bit excessive recently. Just this week I have gotten multiple popups on my work email and in Docs and Sheets. It has been present in Chat for a few months.

They "remind me" every time I use assistant on my phone with an on screen message. But that's about it and though I find it annoying I don't feel forced.

My power button on my phone now opens Gemini... Every damn time it's bumped. Press to wake the phone? Oh hello Gemini

That's how it is. I never even set up Gemini when my phone updated. I never used google assistant either.

I don't even have chrome installed. I use Firefox and Duckduckgo. It in android phones and gsuite products that people have to use for work.You have to go to extreme lengths to uninstall on desktop as outlined in the article, and cannot uninstall or opt out of on android.

I wasn't able to disable Copilot in Office without threatening to cancel via my account management page. It's only then that they give you the option to fall back to the originally priced plan that specifically doesn't include Copilot. And even after that, Copilot apparently won't be removed from my locally installed copies of the Office apps until my plan renewal date in April! I'm pretty sure I'm gonna use the time to transition all my documents to LibreOffice and fully cancel my MS Office plan before it renews.

I use gmail at work and I see the logo in chats, email, drive, docs, and I'm not sure where else. Its annoying when I'm typing an email and it tries to get me to use it. I don't know how to get rid of it either.