Google has updated its privacy policy to allow personal information from Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive to potentially be used for targeted advertising, raising new questions about how the company handles users’ private data.
The change, which took effect on October 16, introduces a significant exception to Google’s previous promise that it would not use content from these services to personalize advertisements.
As first spotted by Android Authority, the updated policy specifically affects users who connect their personal information to Google’s AI-powered services, including Search and Gemini.
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.
Original source article:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/
Also, fuck off, Pichai. You fucking banchode.
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…
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. 🙃
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
Problem being that even a 4TB NAS costs almost 1000€ to buy or build… It’s painful.
❤️ You rock 🫶
and if you can’t selfhost, ente.io is also a good option. but it’s a different software.
Is this only some countries? I thought they legally had to email to inform you of changes to these policies where I live b
Is there an inbox wrapper I can use for gmail on android?
I know I know just switch to proton or whatever. I have, but sometimes I still get stuff from things I’ve connected to gmail that i I’ve forgotten about.
The gmail app on android is very ad heavy.
Just looking to access my gmail from a cleaner app.
The gmail app on android is very ad heavy.
Is it? Or is that just a US thing? Anyway get adguard, that should help.
Thunderbird
Just set gmail to auto-forward all mail to the address you actually use.
Do you just mean an email client? Then fairmail or thunderbird
So glad I switched to immich
Any sane person really still using Gmail?!
What sort of lemmy-ass statement is this? Of course there are sane people using Gmail.
Most people, yeah
I switched to tuta.com since a couple years back, it’s been pretty good. The user experience is worse, but it’s a good trade-off.
But of course it’ll take many years until I’m able to get rid of my Gmail account completely. Especially since I’m using a Google phone, and my car needs a Google account since its OS is based on/integrated with Android. And some websites don’t allow changing your email address, so I dunno what to do about those.
I use Gmail at my workplace. They can go right ahead and use my emails that I check using Thunderbird to send me targeted ads if I ever use their search engine (I use DuckDuckGo).
