Moochs. Everything has become a transaction for them.
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2026
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It's not a transaction anymore, the values are skewed so heavily in favour of Google so that it is far better to pay for services that respect your privacy.
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I thought i had to disable that shirt years ago. Let me guess.. they turned it back on?
Wait.... This is new? They didn't do that already? Really? I though this was the whole business model which made Google so big.
According to the article, it is off by default:
According to Google’s updated privacy policy, the company still promises not to use Gmail, Drive, or Google Photos content for targeted advertising by default.
However, the policy now includes an important exception. Google says that restriction no longer necessarily applies “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.”
The change is connected to Google’s Personal Intelligence features, which allow services like Search and Gemini to access information from connected apps to provide more relevant recommendations.
For example, someone could give Google access to their Gmail inbox to help organize travel plans or find restaurant recommendations near a hotel reservation.
Under the updated policy, information shared for those personalized experiences could also be used to determine which advertisements appear.
For now.
In the US you can hide that opt-in in unreadable terms, can't you? In the EU that will be harder though as there the opt-in has to be easily readable and obvious to the regular user, as well as feature an option to decline without making things non-functional that do not need that for their very functioning.
In any case, people will be surprised how inshittified AI will be able to become once they have done the same they have done to regular search.
Original source article:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/
Also, fuck off, Pichai. You fucking banchode.
So here's an advertisement for an advertisement? Because that's my gmail content.
Posteo is a quality service.
I use Gmail at my workplace. They can go right ahead and use my emails that I check using Thunderbird to send me targeted ads if I ever use their search engine (I use DuckDuckGo).
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How long until this gets used as a reason to gaslight people into using the memory leak browser? 🤔
I like it for the storage, might encrypt my data on there to be safe. Honestly someone could make am app for that, but it wouldn't make it onto the store 😮💨
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Is this only some countries? I thought they legally had to email to inform you of changes to these policies where I live b
So…. What’s a decent email client? This will be the last of the google services I have and it’s time to end it.
Proton if you want a clean UI, more fancy features, aliasing, etc.
Tuta if you want just a simple email, don't care if the UI is a little chunky, and a slightly cheaper price.
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