Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
What would happen if you asked Gemini to write an Email that clearly went against it's TOS and AUP? Would it politely refuse and give you the normal message composition window I wonder. (I no longer have gmail). -
@briankrebs actually, the tiny tiny X only works about half the time and is just the "shove it in my face again every single time" button.
It's long past time for people to dump Gmail. Especially since it's now horrifically insecure and outright dangerous if you oppose the regime.
@rootwyrm It worked, but then when I went to compose an email it fired another popup trying to push Gemini.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs the "x" is the "annoy me later" button, "no" is not an option.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs Have Gemini compose my messages? Like this: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750?
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs Indeed when your plan for market growth is to hide the opt-out button, it might be time to reassess the value of your tool.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs Does ‘Continue’ do the same thing as ‘Try now’?
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and this is why I am going back to the 1990's style email server, spool, and a terminal window client that reads text. Just like the old Unix days as K&R intended.
@dianea @briankrebs Been thinking the same. It would also be nice to have a proper search again via ripgrep.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs nah the tiny "x" is likely the "continue" button aka the "remind me later" button
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs And here I thought I was already confidently drafting my emails ...
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs There is a setting to turn off "smart features" which will suppress those Gemini prompts.
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@briankrebs There is a setting to turn off "smart features" which will suppress those Gemini prompts.
@kahomono You still get the nag screens every time they release a new feature and every now and then a nag screen to turn Gemini on. @briankrebs
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs
Because writing an email is such a hard thing that we have always struggled with...
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@briankrebs i wonder how many users misread
confidentlyasconfidentiallyand proceeded to do. Uh. Security incidentsI did! when seeing this screenshot, my first thought was: huh, I wonder how confidential this really is?? I was confident about my initial read.
Also, does this mean that some (many? most??) emails I receive from gmail accounts will be written by AI? I'm sorry, but I do not spend my time reading AI-generated mail. Boycott in both directions (sending and receiving from gmail).
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@rootwyrm It worked, but then when I went to compose an email it fired another popup trying to push Gemini.
@briankrebs @rootwyrm the correct process flow is x -> options -> takeout -> download my data -> options -> account -> delete my account.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
Is it just me, or does "draft emails confidently" seem like too awkward a phrase to inspire much confidence?
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
@briankrebs I just disabled the smart features entirely. No, smart folder organization isn't a thing I want, it is why I disabled it in the first place. I'm sure Google is using my messages to train their models anyway, but I don't want to get bothered by all this fuzz.
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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?
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@rootwyrm It worked, but then when I went to compose an email it fired another popup trying to push Gemini.
@briankrebs yep, there is absolutely no way to turn it off now, and no way to keep it from hoovering up your inbox for training. "X" is just "force it on me every time."
Seriously.
People need to get the fuck off Gmail.
It's so damn bad that I am giving serious consideration to starting an email hosting business. And I know better than just about everyone what that involves. -
@briankrebs I just disabled the smart features entirely. No, smart folder organization isn't a thing I want, it is why I disabled it in the first place. I'm sure Google is using my messages to train their models anyway, but I don't want to get bothered by all this fuzz.
@briankrebs And, while we are here talking about email, a coworker suggested that I use Outlook. Which alternative exists which is not backed by Mozilla and supports Windows and HTML mail? If there isn't one, I guess I will have to use Thunderbird.
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@kahomono You still get the nag screens every time they release a new feature and every now and then a nag screen to turn Gemini on. @briankrebs
yup - I turned all that crap off as soon as I found out I could do so and **then** when I started getting those screen nags I went back and rechecked my settings: all the smart
still set to off.
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