Fucking spyware and Ai slop.

I hate tech bros forcing this crap onto us.

Steps to disable Gemini app connections:

Open the Gemini app from your Android > device

Click on your profile in the top right corner Open Apps Click to toggle off each app extension

Wait...what Gemini profile...I literally don't have one, I open this dogshit and it asks me to change to Gemini. Guess I'm immune since I never plan on activating that dogshit

https://calyxos.org/

https://grapheneos.org/

Ditch Google, gain privacy.

From the article

Disable Gemini on Android

Do not allow Gemini to have access to your apps like WhatsApp by disabling Gemini’s app connections.

Disable the Gemini app

Go to Settings > Apps

Disable Gemini app

This disables Gemini completely. If you only want to stop Gemini from accessing other apps on your phone, you can take the following steps.

Steps to disable Gemini app connections:

Open the Gemini app from your Android device

Click on your profile in the top right corner

Open Apps

Click to toggle off each app extension

If you’d like to use Gemini but without it storing your prompts in My Activity and using it to “provide, improve, develop, and personalize” Google products and AI models, you will need to go to your Android settings and turn off Gemini Apps Activity. Even with this setting turned off, it’s important to note that Google will still store your activity with Gemini for up to 72 hours. According to Google, it implements this temporary storage of your data for security, safety, and user feedback.

Steps to turn off Gemini App Activity:

Open the Gemini app from your Android device

Click on your profile in the top right corner

Go to Gemini Apps Activity

Here you can turn the activity off

Deinstall Gemini

Alternatively, you can uninstall Gemini from your Android using dev tools on a desktop PC. To deinstall Gemini (or previously Bard), the ID is: com.google.android.apps.bard

Is this still a problem if you don't have the Gemini app but Gemini has replaced Google assistant on the phone? Because my phone has Gemini as the assistant but the app is not there, I even unhid system apps in settings and did a search

Is this a US thing or does it apply to EU too?

So can somebody walk me through the assumption that it is somehow less private for Gemini to access your apps to send messages than it was for Google Assistant to access your apps to send messages?

Look, hey, it's a neat side effect for AI panic to make people aware of some of the privacy issues with voice assistants, but beyond the emotional, is there a reason that'd be the case?