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You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gemini depends on the Google app, disable it, and it dies.

Have you noticed how the Google app, the one that supposedly just does search and list news articles, has like 400 MB? Over time it accumulated 2GB cache... how?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Dammit don't make me switch to apple phones, I hate apple. I hate Google too but FFS all you need to do is stay out of my way and the one thing you continuously do is stand in my way...

GTFO of my way! Piss off with that AI crap that nobody asked for

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (8 children)

An ungoogled android variant has to be a lot lesser of an evil, no?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

"We spent a lot of money on this, so you're going to have it."

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

I agree it would be concerning if I allowed Gemini access to my phone. Fuck that. This shit is exactly why I am on GrapheneOS.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Remember when Google+ was the future?

[–] bitwolf 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish it had been. Circles were so much better than FB groups etc

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

“Google is making it easier for Google to pry into your personal data.”

“Water is making it easier for water to make you wet.”

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be "on by default" for most users.