Fuck you Pichai.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
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I have chrome installed on my phone without my consent
Not if it's not installed on my Linux laptop....
Now do
Chrome can now suggest you files from your and your friends hard drives
It's things like this that got me to start looking at Librewolf.
I used to use WebKit based browsers like w3m and terminal based browsers like lynx. Also used a lot of terminal based apps for things, not really for security but because my netbooks single core atom chip sucked. I noticed though that I essentially avoided cookies, ads, and trackers by accident. I've been thinking of going back to a thermal based life. Now I'm wondering if there are terminal based apps for Lemmy and mastadon.
Now I'm wondering if there are terminal based apps for Lemmy and mastadon.
Mastodon, yes. I've not found one for Lemmy.
I would have to check out the API for Lemmy to see how easy it would be to make a minimal terminal CLI would be to make. I hate making stuff publicly because I usually only want what I need to work, but I could make a repo and see if anyone else is interested in expanding on it.
The headline seems a little inflammatory. It requires the user to explicitly select a region to share.
Google is making Gemini a lot more aware of what's happening inside Chrome. The company has started rolling out a new "Select from screen" feature that lets users highlight specific text or images from a webpage and send them directly to Gemini, making conversations with the AI assistant far more contextual.
It's baffling that over and over and over, every fucking time a corporation does this shit, there's someone willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I like to deal with facts and measured responses instead of being instantly reactionary 🤷
At some point, you become a useful idiot.
Don't fall for the trap. These people do not deserve the benefit of the doubt about anything. Stop giving it to them.
"I like to unquestioningly trust people who have repeatedly betrayed my trust in the past, just because they have a token safeguard in place. Surely they won't rug pull us again and do the thing they always do."
Which is fair, but in the context of the day, and of our history, skepticism is appropriate
The fact that it can do it in the first place means it can do it at all. Just because they require the selection now, doesn't mean they aren't harvesting telemetry 24/7, and won't "accidentally" enable this feature later.
Or just lie to you it’s not on, they have zero reason to not run this 24/7 they will not be caught
they will not be caught
They would get caught tho, there's always some turbo nerd that has a network monitor up and will notice the traffic being sent out. I do it sometimes when I actually have to use chrome, but that's just my growing distrust of Google.
Now, whether or not they face repercussions is another story.
No, it can definitely read the entire browser window, fill out and click through forms etc etc. i know, I’ve used it.
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and while we had constant outrage from Recall, I assume we'll hear nothing about this from people
Seeing your screen when prompted is not the same as recording your screen
Every day, I grow happier for having ditched Google's version of Android for GrapheneOS.
Worldwide we need to all build up GrapheneOS to be the new default for all of us
Meh. It's still mainly backed by Google in the end. I'd rather coalesce around mobile Linux. It's not ready yet but that's far preferable.
I keep hoping for the 10 Fold to go on sale again, but with component prices being the way they are, I don’t think it’s going to happen for me. Will wait and see how it shakes out for the 11, and if it’s still too bonkers, settle for a used 10.
Anyone still using Chrome deserves it
Maybe innocent people who aren’t as technically literate as you that also happen to be using Chrome don’t deserve for their rights to be infringed upon? If that’s an unpopular thought then so be it I suppose.
That's true.
Anyone in this community that is still using Chrome definitely deserves it, though.
More and more apps and websites are not working for me (especially in school) unless I turn off my VPN and use a Chrome based browser it’s super frustrating
Gemini is already creeping me out with all the personal information Google is injecting into the AI context. So far I've seen my name, location and if I remember right, which vehicle I drive. Who knows what else is in there. I use DDG whenever I can, but sometimes a Google search is the only way to actually find something, so I see the Gemini junk as I'm scrolling down.
Is there any way to have that info deleted and no longer collected or used by Google? Or is that kind of thing only for the lucky people in Europe?
EDIT: Found it here: https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini?hl=en-US
If you really want to use Google but without the Gemini junk, &udm=14 is your friend
Thanks! I think I prefer startpage.com (which I only just learned about due to this thread) because it doesn't redirect to google.com. But this is also good to know about just in case.
Oh no!
What ever will they do without my data!?
You saw þe part where þey still keep your data? 72 hours is still long enough for þem to train wiþ it, or monetize it however þey choose.
I would need to use Gemini for pat to happen.
You can use startpage. It just proxies your searches to google, so you get the same results as a direct google search. I think you can also use !g on DDG.
I'll have to try out !g, thanks a lot!
EDIT: Tried it and it just redirected to google.com. I was hoping it would have kept me on DDG for privacy and just presented a first page of results or something like that.
EDIT 2: Startpage is great! This will be my go-to when DDG doesn't work out.
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I get increasingly jaded with every bit of news that basically says "yet another reason to not use Google, integrated/agentic AI etc." When will it be enough to make even IT-illiterates consider?
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