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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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[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 87 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

it should be considered harassment to advertise like this

[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Advertisements should be considered harassment.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks 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 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That is neat!

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

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

It is

Time to move to something else

[–] imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (2 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 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I asked Gemini to set up a counter as I always did on the other assistant and decided to tell me how much time there was left instead. I also asked it to play the news and it said it would but never did. I asked it if all cats knead and gave me a long explanation of what cats need. 😅

I can excuse the last one because of homophones even though ChatGPT got it immediately.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure kneading is a way they mark territory and express feeling safe, glad to be corrected.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey Google.

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

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] Neuromancer49@midwest.social 41 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

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

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 34 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (1 children)

They are billing your company for it as well

[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's for free bro. Google promised!

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 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

[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to use FairEmail, and IMO it's one of the best email clients available on any platform, but it started acting weird as my account got larger. Taking forever to sync, not sending emails (just keeping them in the outbox), etc. I switched to K9 Mail, which has now become Thunderbird for Android.

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

On one hand, I think audits are a reasonable idea. Some of the most sensitive data is in people's emails, and most accounts can have their passwords reset via email. You really wouldn't want malicious code touching that stuff. On the other hand, that's definitely a large expense for an open source project :/

I'm glad some providers are moving towards OAuth or OIDC for logging in to email. Regular auth is very outdated and doesn't support two-factor auth. It'll just take a while to get there.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

for FOSS projects, google itself could sponsor the certification, if they really cared about security and not just closing the garden. The code is public and they could definitely write automated tests to check all they need to check, and at every single commit, and not just yearly, done in secret by some auditor.

For google drive integration, i saw that most devs are just removing support for it because doesn't make sense to pay $500 yearly to support it when there's a million of better alternatives

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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But how much do you really know about Driving Mode?

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I know enough to drive my car into Google headquarters soon.

For legal reasons that is a joke and I have no intentions of driving my vehicle into the Google buildings.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 15 points 2 weeks 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

[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks 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 9 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 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

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)
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[–] Liquid@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Agree this is shit UX but...

How am I just now discovering you can do the swipe to change accounts

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I used to go in the menu and click the other accounts one at a time until a friend showed me. Its this and removing the youtube click to add to queue popup that drive me bananas. They both worked so well why would you change it?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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