@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
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@shwell1 @dbattistella this seems pretty old cause iirc Ecosia turned out to basically be a scam and DeepL switched over to LLM-based garbage generation (among other things)
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella Super helpful. Had already switched completely elsewhere (paid TutaMail - Legend level allowed big imports) but it’s great to clean up the remaining permissions prior to full deletion. Thank you!
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella I assumed this was already happening decades ago, and abandoned google at that point. I hear leaving google is somehow very, very, very difficult for some people (???) so they have to keep warning eachother about the latest, and the latest, and the latest.
Really, we should stop using lmao these technologies. Makes me giggle to say this, as Ive been saying it for like 20 years, BEFORE these companies revealed (to the public) they were fascist.
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@toxomat Not sure I understand what point you're trying to make.
@dbattistella @toxomat it's a lazy "only idiots use gmail" lukewarm take. just very wordy
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella I got lucky
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@shwell1 @phaedral @dbattistella They're sprining up all over the place and I'm loving it.
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@shwell1 @dbattistella Brave is weird fashy adware and I can't use my bank's internet banking website cause it lacks features the app has and also they didn't actually give me the login details, went to ask for them, and then they didn't give me the instructions and I've been too busy to go again and embarrass myself in front of the employees by asking for them
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@shwell1 @dbattistella You need to erase Firefox from that list, and make sure you use the noai version of DDG. Brave is a good alternative to FF.
@MiaMarkTwo Brave, as a project, has it's own issues. Issues just as bad as AI.
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@shwell1 @dbattistella how old is this? Vimeo has been gobbled up by venture capitalists a long time ago and killed their community by trying to go commercial-only
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella not for everyone, i know, but i traded in my secondhand iphone for a preloved, degoogled fairphone 3 & the app lounge is brilliant. no apple, no google. life is sweet as a nut.
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@shwell1 @MiaMarkTwo @dbattistella I seem to have touched a nerve. I've never used it; nothing to turn off. But my mastodon feed has lead me to believe it's the choice of Nazis. ymmv
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@dbattistella not for everyone, i know, but i traded in my secondhand iphone for a preloved, degoogled fairphone 3 & the app lounge is brilliant. no apple, no google. life is sweet as a nut.
@kathimmel I have a feeling more and more of us will choose to do the same soon.
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@LukefromDC @dbattistella I have Tor , Vivaldi and Ungoogled Chromium and i use Mojeek search , DuckDuckgo . I have zero computer background , I am retired never worked in a office, if I ask my mates anything about tech they look at me as if I have two heads but I get there in the end
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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@dbattistella@mstdn.ca fucking hell -
@feld@friedcheese.us @dbattistella@mstdn.ca @shwell1@aus.social depends on what ones means by alternative, if they mean frontend for YouTube, there are plenty on all platforms.
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