Completely Disable Gemini From Spying On Your Google Acccount
Completely Disable Gemini From Spying On Your Google Acccount
EU citizen here. The first link redirects to the Gemini front page for me. Tried with a trailing slash, that gives a 404. Second one confirms there is no Gemini activity to delete. Never did use Gemini. I guess this means they didn't automatically onboard EU folk...?
I really should delete my Google account, since all I use it for is a Gmail account for whenever I need to enter an email for anything.
Yep. Seems like I couldn't even turn it on if I wanted to. They won't even admit that such things exist.
Same here from the UK. I'm guessing it just because we've not used Gemini yet?
I think this means you haven't used Gemini yet and therefore not given permission to Gemini to use your data
Just setup a new account with a more privacy focused provider and move your accounts to a new email as you use them.
I still have a Gmail account, but it's never used for new accounts and I don't stay logged into it on my phone or browser. Every time I notice some old account associated with it I'll delete it or move it
It's becoming more and more rare that I need to login
Hamburger menu, settings, it's right there
I'm glad we're safe for now but thanks for the warning OP.
Is this a regional thing? This isn't on by default on my accounts.
It could be dependent on your country’s privacy regulations.
Google is the kind of company you can’t really trust with these things. There’s new stuff going on with those settings all the time, so you might want to read through all of the settings every now and then. If you haven’t done that in a while, you’re probably going to find some creepy stuff.
If you periodically have to turn off checkboxes in products to feel your data is better protected:
- it’s really not
- just move to something else
That way you also stop sponsoring said company.
Criticizing is easy, try offering solutions as well. If there are people that use Google's slew of products, what's an alternative they can move to?
syncthing and KDE connect do a great job of replacing all kinds of google features.
At this point, self hosting seems to be the best way to use these sorts of services and still have a semblance of privacy. But I understand that's well outside the scope of less techie users
TY for the share 🙏
Thanks a lot. 👍
Thank you
It looks like doing the 2nd one automatically does the first one.
https://bsky.app/profile/rrookstudio.bsky.social/post/3lfutd6dmz22b
Here's the original (on Bluesky, I belief the original originating was on Instagram...)
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I really hate posts that say "everyone" but it only affects a handful of people...
if you are still making up reasons to use google products you are the baddie and deserved to be scammed.
I get it, but I've had my primary Gmail account for about 20 years. In early 2024 I decided to start de-googling my life (I just replaced my Home Mini with the home assistant voice preview) - but even that's been a challenge because I opted for the (now revealed to be) bootlicking Proton mail.
This shit isn't easy.
Using Proton even with a Bootlicker CEO is infinitely better than anything Apple or Google shove up your asss
I don't see people spazzing out about tim apple or sundar the creep rimming trumps but hole with serious ferocity right after the election.
exactly. and while you do some sort of training before driving a car you somehow feel entitled to be on the internet without any lecture on how to use it. hm. maybe stop falling for the shiny stuff. dumbass. so disroot is so good google search results does not show their frontpage but some unuseable nextcloudlogin as top result. so you even get a nextcloudaccount there. and i haven heard then scumbagging around. nordVPN also has shiny ads...fell for that too? well do mullvad. and stop using those damn large corpos. for ever.
