This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm slowly moving away from Gmail and Google Docs/Drive, but in the meantime entering this into uBlock Origin seems to help:
mail.google.com##div[jscontroller][jsaction]:has(> span > button[aria-label="Try Gemini"])
drive.google.com##div[jscontroller][jsaction]:has(> span > button[aria-label="Try Gemini"])
docs.google.com##div[jscontroller][jsaction]:has(> span > button[aria-label="Try Gemini"])
AAAAAria to save the day!
Where are they putting it, chrome? Just use Firefox instead.
It is also on android phones and can't be uninstalled or disabled.
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.
The article in this post tells the only way to get rid of it. If you use it for corporate, your IT people have to call and ask Google support to add the setting for you to be able to turn it off.
My employer is switching from Microsoft to Google for office tools next month and they’ve been championing its availability to all of us. I’m not looking forward to it…
Is it bad that I stopped using Google docs and plan on moving to OpenOffice instead?
Open office. Or libre office. Also. Don't give Google your data like that bro
I <3 libreoffice
Try OnlyOffice instead
I'd recommend libreoffice, because oracle also kinda sucks.
Kinda?
I view Oracle as worse than Google.
Worse but less powerful
Why would that be bad?
Thats nothing, the Play Integrity API is trying to block usage by other operating systems like CalyxOS and Graphene. Imo much more insidious and opaque.
Ewwww
Every Google Drive action I do now is shifted over 20% for ✨
The good news is that this may cure my laziness. I've been preparing to leave most of google service for a while now.
I tried to ask it how I could remove it, Gemini told me that in order for me to help it I needed to active some of the "smart" features I didn't have active on my account, essentially helping do the opposite. It follows the ever increasing practice of trying to shove basically illegal behavior into "it's just the algorithm, bro, there was no intent!"
