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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.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

for fun ask gemini if water freezes at 20 degrees

[–] Liquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey Google.

I still can't create folders in the Android Gmail app. But somehow you had time for this?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 15 hours ago

Gemini: "to create a folder, right click on the desktop, select new, them select folder. When the folder icon appears, type the name you want for your new folder."

Me: No... in Gmail!

Gemini: "Gmail is a google service for emails"

Me: No! How do I create folders in Gmail??

Gemini: "Email folders are a great way to sort and organize your emails into easily searchable categories."

Me: Never mind. Thanks for nothing.

Gemini:

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I'm sorry, I don't know how to help with that"

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It gets worse. If you have "smart features and personalization" turned off for your Gmail account, which I do, you can't even ask Gemini anything. Not even to get the inevitably wrong answer.

But this still doesn't remove the damn button for it from the corner of your screen.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah that was the first thing I checked too as I was certain I disabled it all. Hopefully Gemini goes the same path as countless other Google products

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gemini: "I can't help you! I only work here!"

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I can't help you. I don't work.

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[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 85 points 2 days ago (4 children)

it should be considered harassment to advertise like this

[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Advertisements should be considered harassment.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have a law in Mexico that says you can't hang up advertisements outside your shop at kids' eye level. I thought it was neat.

[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That is neat!

Is it true that in Spanish, the word "propaganda" can be used interchangeably with "publicidad," which means advertising?

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, propaganda is very commonly used to talk about ads

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

It is

Time to move to something else

[–] imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 days ago

Taking a play out of Microsoft's book. Must be desperate.

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[–] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I saw a Copilot prompt in MS PowerPoint today - top left corner of EVERY SINGLE SLIDE - and I had a quiet fit in my cubicle. Welcome to hell.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 27 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, the slop button. Truly the pinnacle of productivity.

[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Apparently they can't roll out Gemini to my phone because I never gave them my birthday. It's a really old account and they've been sending me notifications to add my birthday for years.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

I'm in the same boat. Keep getting android popups like IMPORTANT ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION YOU HAVE TO ADD YOUR BIRTHDAY no I don't fuck you swipe away.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's for the best, I used to ask Google assistant for alarms and basic searches sometimes, Gemini gives excruciatingly long responses that won't shut up and recently started responding with things from my past emails assumingly from the Gmail account needed to set up the phone. So now I don't have Google assistant, and will no longer search anything with Gemini out of principle. Need a new phone OS it appears

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I accidentally triggered Gemini while taking a close-up photo of something in my hand. It threw up a nearly full-screen "how can I help?" message. I muttered "fuck off", and the message now read, "I'm sorry you feel that way..." Oh my god no. NO. Gemini now disabled.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It can't control its personality either. So when you say something like "set an alarm for 5:30am", and it hears you wrong you say, "Set An Alarm For 5 30 AM". Slowing down and annunciating. Then it responds Oh Kay repeating your cadence as if it needs to annunciate to you because you don't understand, haha. Every time someone has heard it around me as been like, wow, that's a sassy bitch.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you are willing to forego Google Pay, I strongly recommend GrapheneOS.

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very much this. I really dislike my pixel 6 pro (i don't understand the immense hype it got but, whatever), however, i will be getting another pixel when this dies just so i can use GrapheneOS. So good

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have a 7 pro and it seems more like top of mid-tier device rather than a flagship, but I got it for GrapheneOS and will buy Pixel again just because of it.

[–] uppluck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Had the 6 Pro, 7 Pro, 8 Pro, and now 9 Pro

I feel like the 8 Pro is the best of that series, but I don't have hard evidence to explain why

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are billing your company for it as well

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)
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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I replaced gmail with fairemail for similar reasons. I can't stand their interface, designed to maximise clicks on the wrong locations.

Main problem is that now google requires developers of email clients to give $4000 in annual fees (level 3? or level 2 for just $500 is enough?) at their friends at KPMG to do yearly audits of the code, so they will kill most alternatives in few years now that oauth is mandatory

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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 15 points 2 days ago

It must be infuriating to work for whoever makes these decisions. I don't think I would ever actually email them about anything because there'd be no way I could possibly trust that the reply I get is actually something they wrote

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Gemini? The Teletext-alike web?

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