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Google to Gemini Users: We’re Going to Look at Your Texts Whether You Like It or Not (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This misunderstands the announcement completely.

What the announcement is saying is: previously, if you wanted Gemini to have access to text and chat apps, you also needed to enable Gemini Apps Activity, i.e. the feature that saves all Gemini interactions to the cloud. Now, the settings to enable or disable app access from history tracking are fully separate, so you can have app access enabled (if you want) even if the Apps Activity feature is disabled.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey, you're getting in the way of everyone's FUD against Google!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

hey, maybe you should err on the side of starting out with the idea that google; who famously removed "Don't be evil" from their corporate mantra, is upto no good? of course it doesn't hurt to verify.. but you seem to suggest we should start and stop our thinking with "look at my poor boy google who wouldn't hurt a fly!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It's cool how someone downvoted the explanation without explaining why they think I'm mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Time to downgrade to no phone at all weeee.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If you have a pixel, graphene os is really good, very easy to install, and doesn't have any AI bloat. I've been using it for a few months now and cannot recommend it enough.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

laughs in GrapheneOS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

don’t use Google

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It’s truly difficult for me to summon empathy for people who support evil companies and then get upset when the evil company they support does evil things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Fucking nazi company..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seems like you can turn it off if you don't want it though....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Seems like

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That doesn't have anything to do with the announcement. What the announcement is saying is: previously, if you wanted Gemini to have access to text and chat apps, you also needed to enable Gemini Apps Activity, i.e. the feature that saves all Gemini interactions to the cloud. Now, the settings to enable or disable app access from history tracking are fully separate, so you can have app access enabled (if you want) even if the Apps Activity feature is disabled.