They don't want you to opt out. Then they can't brag to the shareholders about Chrome being "AI Powered"
replyYou're not even the customer when it comes to Google.
Don't forget the metric saying "99.97% of user have installed this" even though less than 1% of users know it exists, much less use it
replyat this point you're barely the product either. You're more a passive platform for them to execute their strategy on.
replyTotally agreed. I was thinking about how to word it but I was giving up.
replyBut I would consider us users to be more like an asset on their balance sheet. Not something they would care about the opinion of.
I was not happy when they added Gemini to the top bar, in its own place that nothing else gets to use.
replyI think a local AI model is appreciated, but it being bundled and executed through Chrome, I expect that more or less all data get exfiltrated by Google.
replyThey simply read your mails, how would you expect there to be anything resembling decency in a company like that? It is the ad business.
Bad thing is that people still use gmail.
Because we must get what the tech overlords want us to get, not what we want to get.
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