#google

🚨 BREAKING #Google just activated #Gemini on #Gmail - without asking you.

Turn it off now; here's how!
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

✊️ Fight AI & fight Google

You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.

Share so everyone is aware. ❤️

🚨 It's official: Google wants to scan your Gmail

Here are the plans: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-google-search

Disable Gemini now! We explain

👉️ How to disable Gemini
👉️ How to deinstall Gemini

And why @GrapheneOS @LineageOS and others are better in the first place.

Stop #Google now: 👉️ https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

Le traitement médiatique des annonces concernant l'usage de l'IA pour l'étude de documents antiques a toujours quelque chose de naïf que je trouverais touchant s'il n'était pas profondément problématique. Pourquoi est-ce problématique ? Explications.
On a pu voir ça avec l'usage de l'IA pour aider à déchiffrer des rouleaux de papyrus romains trop endommagés pour être déroulés et examinés à l'œil nu.
Ces jours-ci, Google a annoncé avoir mis au point un outil utilisant l'IA pour aider les antiquisant-e-s à émettre des hypothèses sur les parties manquantes des inscriptions romaines.
Et les médias de s'esbaudir.
Sauf que...
1/8
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-just-released-an-ai-tool-that-helps-historians-fill-in-missing-words-in-ancient-roman-inscriptions-180987046/
#latin #Antiquité #histoire #epigraphie #archeologie #RomeAntique #informatique #HumanitesNumeriques #Google #obscurantisme #presentisme

Just a reminder that Google is an illegal monopolist, having lost three distinct antitrust cases.

It looks likely that Google will be treated the way Microsoft was in their famous antitrust loss in the late 1990s, and not be broken up in any significant way. Google absolutely should be broken up, just like AT&T and Standard Oil (and countless other large US monopolists) were before it. Google's wealth and power derives from illegal behavior; this is not in question anymore. Why should they be permitted to keep what courts have decided they stole? 100 years of antitrust law and precedent says that it should not be permitted to keep the spoils of its illegal behavior.

It sounds to me like the hesitation to break up Google is largely ideological on the part of the judges and lawyers involved. The failure to break up Microsoft after its antitrust loss is arguably one of the main reasons the US economy is such a monopolized, consolidated mess today, and why so many things are "enshittifying". Breaking up Google and changing that pattern would obviously not cure all ills, but it'd almost surely make a number of things in the economy better for a whole lot of people.

In any case, one thing we can all do is look at Google as a bad actor, a law-breaking entity whose power is illegitimate.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece

#Google #Microsoft #antitrust #monopoly #USEconomy #neoliberalism

The #privacy-friendly apps developed by the #SECUSO research group will no longer be available via the #Google Play Store, but only via the F-Droid Store. Reason for this decision is that the maintenance required to provide privacy-friendly apps in the Google Play Store is significantly greater than on F-Droid. This extra work is no longer feasible for us as a #research group. PFAs downloaded from the Google Play Store can continue to be used as usual. However, there will be no further updates for these apps in the future, which is why we recommend switching to the F-Droid versions. Updates will continue to be provided there in the future. Your existing data can be backed up using the BackUp app, which can also be found on F-Droid. The privacy-friendly apps can then be downloaded from F-Droid and used as usual. In our tutorial we explain every step in detail.

Tutorial english: https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/downloads/play-store-to-f-droid-migration-de.pdf

Tutorial german: https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/downloads/play-store-to-f-droid-migration-de.pdf

🌿 Cortar el hilo: avanzar hacia tecnologías autónomas dejando atrás la dependencia de las grandes tecnológicas

https://mayfirst.coop/es/post/2025/cutting-the-cord/

La investigación Cortar el hilo ofrece una hoja de ruta inicial para que los movimientos sociales puedan reducir su dependencia de Google en particular y de las grandes empresas tecnológicas en general.

📙 Reporte (es) https://mayfirst.coop/files/cutting-the-cord.es.pdf
📻 https://mayfirst.coop/es/audio/cutting-the-cord-experiences/

#mayfirst #google #autonomia #dependenciatecnologica #movimientossociales

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.