“There is a way to uninstall Gemini from your device completely. But it's not easy and requires a laptop and a handy tool called ADB (Android Debug Bridge).”
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Oh, it's fine, just install Android Studio. Or maybe get a copy of the standalone Android SDK if you don't want that. Then you go open a command prompt and ... oh, you'll need to activate developer mode on your phone, too, of course.
jul 9, 2025, 6:48 am • 1 0 • view
I am looking forward to the day this transpires to generationally advanced friends who panicked about the Meta AI button in their WhatsApp.
jul 9, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
The best use case for WhatsApp is as a way to tell people about Signal.
jul 9, 2025, 7:02 am • 2 0 • view
"Install *another* app? I, who only limits himself to three different tile-matching games on his phone? Never! I'd never share sensitive information there anyway. That's what email is for."
jul 9, 2025, 7:08 am • 0 0 • view
This gets a follow and a hearty thank you.
jul 9, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Do I understand correctly that these steps are unnecessary with respect to Gemini since I have done this already? "... the safer option is to uninstall all updates to the Google app and then disable it. And with that, Gemini is gone. But so is Google."
jul 10, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
Or you can just not use WhatsApp.
jul 9, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 9, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
What if you only access Gemini through a browser?
jul 10, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view
Google at this point is essentially an information parasite.
jul 9, 2025, 6:45 am • 2 0 • view
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jul 9, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view
Huh. Tried that once.
jul 9, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
A simpler way to deal with this is to get rid of a phone made by the spyware company who removed “Don’t” from their motto. Europeans should not be using Android phones: it’s not safe when the contents can be scooped up and made available wholesale to a hostile foreign regime.
jul 9, 2025, 6:04 am • 7 2 • view
Do I have to fire up my old OpenMoko Linux 2g phone with resistive screen? Seriously though, if not Apple or Android, are there any viable alternatives?
jul 9, 2025, 6:22 am • 0 0 • view
The best option is lineage OS or another custom ROM that strips out google from Android, works best on a pixel phone Apple still collects data, and there is no way to remove them from the device.
jul 9, 2025, 9:25 am • 2 0 • view
I made the switch to /e/os (lineage derivative) this winter. So far it's been fine.
jul 9, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I prefer Apple because it doesn’t (and doesn’t need to) pull the same shit that Google does. A lot of the privacy by design is embedded into the hardware and where it doesn’t work is where the UK regime forced Apple to wreck the privacy protections.
jul 9, 2025, 6:27 am • 1 0 • view
Who'd have thought Apple became the lesser of 2 evils! I think it's probably too hard for anything new to compete with them now.
jul 9, 2025, 6:33 am • 1 0 • view