Kinda seems fucking stupid
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Privacy-conscious Indians are gonna have a nightmare. Indians excessively use whatsapp.
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If I have the app disabled it probably can't do anything right?
Which app ?
The Gemini app. I can't uninstall it from my phone but I have it disabled. Not sure if Google's other account access and apps on my phone are going to still feed into Gemini.
I think when google app and play services still present on your device, it feeds data into gemini anyway. Hope you are not using google vanilla apps.
By the way why you arent able to uninstall gemini app ? 🤔 Did you tried lineage os with microg which is way better ?!
I have stock android on a pixel and was able to just uninstall it. So it's not all devices at least
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Is this a US only thing? I have no email and no Gemini app (although there are settings in system)
I hope so considering I talk to others who will have Android phones with Google on it.
Good thing I don't have that shit on my phone (at least until Google forces it)
The people you're messaging might, though.
I got a privacy update for Gmail tools too. It used to be to enable smart tools you needed to allow google to read your email. That does stuff like automatically add calendar events for flights and such.
Now you must also allow the email to be read by their AI services too. I can’t recall precisely how it was worded, but it was an easy decision to keep the “smart” features off.
I mean, I really just use Gmail as the email address I give to sign up for sites and such, but would be good just not to have it one day.
Oh hell nah
Don't go and manually install it.
The misinformation about this has been wild.
Hopefully unintalling and disabling is actually doing something. I feel like they are just tricking us and you can't really disable it.