WARNING: #GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO USING GEMINI AI AND FEEDING GEMINI YOUR DATA IN GMAIL AND OTHER APPS!

What Google is now doing should be ILLEGAL. PERIOD. For the first time I can recall in history of using Gmail, it just now popped a modal dialogue box -- DEMANDING that I choose whether or not I wanted "Smart Features" turned on -- which when you read the verbiage mostly means goddamned Gemini AI AND if you enable this you're giving Google permission to use your data to "improve" this horrifically invasive, inept, and misinformation spewing tech that steals data from websites for its own use without permission of those sites. DON'T LET IT SUCK IN YOUR EMAIL AS WELL!

There was no way I could find to exit the modal window without choosing YES or NO, which means my existing selection to NOT use Gmail Smart Features (long my preference) was NOT being honored. After saying NO to this disgusting query by Google, I was pushed to ANOTHER page where I was forced to choose again about "smart features" in "other" Google apps. I chose NO again and finally was permitted to escape this trap.

Note that while you can fairly easily check to make sure "smart features" are turned off in Gmail settings, I offhand don't have a clue as to how to find the similar settings in other Google apps that may have been affected by this absolutely disrespectful forced dialogue, as Google keeps trying to ram Gemini AI down our throats.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Google has become a DISGRACE.

#Google #Gmail #Gemini #AI

@lauren my 85 year old mother flat out stopped using Gmail until I was able to pay her a visit to sort out the dialog that doesn't even show you the scroll bar you need to use to scroll down to be able to deny the "smart features" activation, which has been a massive issue in Germany, re-translating emails from German to German and confusing and falsifying texts along the way ...

Ref

https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_100811852/gmail-fantasiert-googles-mail-programm-verfaelscht-fremde-inhalte.html

https://www.falter.at/zeitung/20250606/manche-fehler-machen-wir-tatsaechlich-nicht-selbst

"Making the world's information generally useful and accessible" has clearly turned into "Taking the world's information and generally munge it up"

Gmail fantasiert: Googles Mail-Programm verhunzt Inhalte

Ohne Vorwarnung verändert sich der Inhalt von E-Mails – und mitten in journalistischen Texten tauchen absurde Fehler auf: t-online deckt auf, dass Google ein Problem hat – und vielen Menschen damit Probleme macht.

t-online
@lauren more fun: if you use multiple devices/browsers, you get prompted on every device/browser.