I have an enterprise account and they added this button today. Guess what used to be there? The profile image where you could so conveniently swipe up or down to switch between gmail accounts. This is the kind of UI garbage that makes you want to move your entire company to another service just because you can.
Better than when they switched sides in the play store and my thumb couldn’t reach the check for updates :(
Despite have AI off as much as possible within our Google Workspace at work, today all of my coworkers have received multiple ads / prompts by Google to use Gemini. In Gmail, in Google Meet, and more. Our policies don’t allow us to use it so this is just ridiculous.
They are billing your company for it as well
No, it’s for free bro. Google promised!
It’s on my desktop Gmail and I’ve been having a shitty time trying to disable it and remove it.
Literally asked Gemini how to remove Gemini and it said it did not know, then I called it stupid, and then it apologised and said I can remove Gemini in the Gmail settings, but I couldn’t find the option after yelling at it in all caps and it’s still there just taunting me
K-9 mail/Thunderbird Mail
Not totally Foss but I don’t think it is bad. I just like k-9 better.
Agree this is shit UX but…
How am I just now discovering you can do the swipe to change accounts
Same with the open tab number/button in Firefox mobile (and its derivatives). Swipe left/right on that button.
Yeah I used to go in the menu and click the other accounts one at a time until a friend showed me. Its this and removing the youtube click to add to queue popup that drive me bananas. They both worked so well why would you change it?
While we are talking about shit that Google pulls that drives us crazy can we talk about the pop-up asking me if I know about driving mode EVERY SINGLE TIME I LAUNCH MAPS FROM MY CAR.
I fuckin know about it Google. I have said yes every single goddamn time. Stop fuckin asking me.
But how much do you really know about Driving Mode?
I know enough to drive my car into Google headquarters soon.
For legal reasons that is a joke and I have no intentions of driving my vehicle into the Google buildings.
You can disable it entirely… I don’t remember how though
I disabled it from my settings. It comes back.
for fun ask gemini if water freezes at 20 degrees
Gemini? The Teletext-alike web?
Delete your Google account already
Gemini is completely unusable… So many questions are redirected to what they want me to ask, and not to an answer for what I asked. I wouldn’t be against this if I could turn it off and if it actually added any value.
I asked Gemini how to clear the cache on Google messages. It did not know.
IT COULDNT ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION ABOUT THE APP ITS PART OF
Gemini: “I can’t help you! I only work here!”
I can’t help you. I don’t work.
I asked Gemini to set up a counter as I always did on the other assistant and decided to tell me how much time there was left instead. I also asked it to play the news and it said it would but never did. I asked it if all cats knead and gave me a long explanation of what cats need. 😅
I can excuse the last one because of homophones even though ChatGPT got it immediately.
I’m pretty sure kneading is a way they mark territory and express feeling safe, glad to be corrected.
I think it’s a behavior from nursing
“adding a feature” = “forcing”
The profile image is still there, right beside the gemini button, and you can still swipe on it.
Well I didn’t ask for this and I pay them for this and multiple accounts. If it wasn’t forced there would be a setting to turn it off
move
To who?
I use Tuta. It works decently well.
Wait on Proton for a hot minute. The CEO just came out with a pretty polarizing statement, I would wait until we see how that unfolds over the next few weeks.
I did not know that and could not find anythimg online do you mind posting a link with more Info?
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/116033c0-8f08-40cf-b5ea-a384724420d7.webp
the CEO tweeted in favor of trump, saying the republicans are the party of the “little guy” now
afterwards the proton team came out with a since-deleted statement in support of their CEO
Posteo is pretty damn good, too.
Oh, no, the leopard ate your face.
Why are you using Google in the first place, if you don’t want things like this?
Not everyone on Lemmy cares about their privacy that much.
Well, evidently.
Surprised you made it over to lemmy. Whatever your reason was, im glad you took a step towards protecting your privacy.
Honest question: how is Lemmy more private?
I made it over to Lemmy cause idk why reddit was a toxic mess and i was trying to find a alterntive to Reddit.
Cause I live in the real world and my employees aren’t rocket scientists
FireFox isn’t any more complicated than Chrome. In fact the user experience is easier and nicer. Alternative email providers aren’t a big mystery either. Maybe don’t underestimate people or put a modicum of effort into switching your company away from big tech platforms that don’t give a shit about you or your employees.
this is the gmail app on android. It rolled out to everyone on staff this morning and there is no setting to turn it off, never existed before.
I found this. Don’t know if it helps
Yeah I had already turned it off for everyone. But the button is permanently in place for now
That’s shitty
Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?
In my non-enterprise accounts the profile pic is exactly where the Gemini is now. So I flip thru them and it moves back and forth. Just real dumb. They could have added the Gemini button inside the search bar and I could have kept ignoring it.
Ohh. I use a separate phone for work so I didn’t notice that. Yeah search bar would’ve been a better spot for sure.
