The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not
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Well I've been meaning to de-Google for a bit now
Perfect time to go for it
To disable it (for now):
Anyone know how to get rid of the Gemini icons?
I use ublock origin to remove the Gemini icons.
They are free to ingest all my spam email to feed a model that talks like newsletter spam
My spam emails are thenonly one i use with gmail app anyway now spam have a purpose at least
https://mail.proton.me/
https://mail.tutanota.com/
Tuta doesn't do email encryption for non Tuta users. Proton is the best choice
Bye Google! You were cool once. But fuck off.
Nothing new here. Scanning and analyzing all your mails is the origin story behind Gmail. Dating back 20 years now.
They are gonna get their training data from you, by any means necessary.
It’s fucking rape like the way companies are forcing Ai onto their customers.
Is there anybody who has a way to handle transferring from Gmail to anything else without losing 20 years+ worth of mail and content? Also to make sure that the people who contact me through Gmail get transferred to the new location?
Imapsync
This. You’ll need to turn on imap support in your Gmail account settings. But once you’ve done that it’s pretty easy.
Move to Mxroute or protonmail.
Protonmail has Gmail importer I think
When I switch from Gmail to iCloud I was able to download all my messages to my iCloud mailbox using IMAP IIRC (its been a few years)