“Google is making it easier for Google to pry into your personal data.”
“Water is making it easier for water to make you wet.”
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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Apple has been seriously underperforming on their AI strategy.
Really makes it easy to keep using their devices.
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im using OP12R and uses google, but i dont if it has gemini as integrated in it as a pixel does?
Pls break Google up. Kthx
Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be "on by default" for most users.
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Few years ago I got a Nest Secure to go with my other Google Nest gear. One day Google emailed me to tell me Assistant was now enabled on my security system. Oh, by the way, it has an undocumented microphone!
That’s when I realized what a privacy nightmare Google really is. I know Apple isn’t great but come on.
This headline format makes me irrationally annoyed.
They shouldn't be making assumptions about what the reader thinks. It almost feels like they're planting a bias first and then presenting the facts - instead of just laying things out and letting people make up their own minds.
I guess my next phone is going to run NixOS.