So here's an advertisement for an advertisement? Because that's my gmail content.

What a great reminder to turn off all those trackers. Thanks Lemmy!

Users concerned about the latest privacy change can disconnect Gmail, Google Photos, and other connected apps from Personal Intelligence or disable Personalized Recommendations through their Google Account settings.

Most important part of the article.

Targeted advertising should be illegal. Solves a lot of problems. You can pick an ad based on its location (sports.example.com can have sports ads and astrology.example.com star ads), but not based on who's viewing it. Now there's less motivation to read all your personal information.

Remember when the entire selling point of Gmail was lots of storage and "no obtrusive ads like Yahoo Mail or Hotmail"? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Posteo is a quality service.

Wait.... This is new? They didn't do that already? Really? I though this was the whole business model which made Google so big.

Glad you said this because I went into my Google accounts and shut all that crap off. Instead of getting ads for mountain bikes I'm going to get ads for paint brushes and manicures but at least they don't know anything about me.

And still people are going to say "I have nothing to hide". (edit: or any variation of This is Fine)

Maybe a few less now.

Moochs. Everything has become a transaction for them.

Huh. Shows you how cynical I am, I already thought they were doing this.

AT THIS POINT, Google is just gonna try to replace our friends with AI that only advertise and if we say no to the ai for advertising, it sends a drone to kill us (remember there will be alternatives)

If you want to take back control of your data, there are open source alternatives to almost every Google product

Odd how these headlines always ramp up as Alphabet ( Google) approaches their quarterly earnings report.

Fucking hell. Time to take all the photos down. It's been at least a decade since a photo has been uploaded there, because I knew Google can't be trusted and I disabled the automatic upload, just hadn't taken the already uploaded images down. On top of that, for months I have been in the process of moving off gmail to Zoho Mail. Fuck Google.

Not at all surprising. Microsoft is already doing similar sorts of things it seems. Like on a work system, I was looking at one of our vendor sites, and Edge's AI assistant started recommending places I could get a cheaper deal for items that I stopped to look at for a bit too long. So not only do you get a shittier slop infested product in Edge, but it's also pretty much an AI powered adware that watches every page you visit, and you can't easily get rid of it / its monitoring.

Problem is every institution by default expects you to have gmail. If not then you need to have it. This is what fucked up.

Original source article:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/

Also, fuck off, Pichai. You fucking banchode.

Reminder that Immich has basically all the features of Google Photos and more, and you can migrate fairly easily by doing a Google Takeout.

https://www.bigiron.cc/guides/migrating-google-photos-to-immich-via-takeout

I got a year of @Thundermail.com for $72.00.

I use The Flatpak on my Desktop and grabbed it from F-Droid on my Pixel 10.

I don't even have Google Play Services installed on my daily driver/main profile. 🙃

Great, so I'm going to get advertisements of an "adult" nature soon

Moving to Ente? Or moving to Proton family? Mixed of both?

I also found out the reported Photos usage via Google profile is way undercounted. It shows i have 30 GB of photos. I just requested a checkout of all Photos and well.... i need to download 120GB...

Those advertisers are constantly subsidizing the evil tech bros. Fuck all products! /s