I’ve lost features that used to work without Gemini, but I believe it is disabled on both my Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 8 I have access to.
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titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoBullshit. I have it turned off on my pixel 9pro and Samsung s24 plus
bss03@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nope, it’s still running in the background. You just turned off its ability to interact with you but can and does still interact with others.
bss03@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Do you have some sort of evidence for this claim?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
www.kaspersky.com/blog/…/m and proton.me/blog/turn-off-gemini-on-android were easy enough to find. If I remember correctly the grapheneOS guys spoke on this too.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You actually turned off geminis ability to serve YOU. You never turned off Gemini itself. Google won’t allow that. It’s still running in the background send your data to Google and its advertising partners. Google has publicly stated this is the intended design and they will not allow turning that off.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Show me.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t have to show you. Google, the people who made the fucking OS, told you that’s how this works!
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Now. They provided me a nice little button that allows me to disable Gemini, and they have allowed me to opt out of any usage. So again. Show me that it is still active after I have disabled it.