@Tutanota A fundamental weakness of Capitalism is to allow something that starts as a good idea to accumulate, concentrate and grab up too much power and wealth that undermines the entire system. This critique is directed at all mega-corps including Apple who has been hobnobbing with Mr Desructo. It’s untenable when we’re ruled by a handful of asshole Bs pulling the strings behind the curtain.

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I have Gemini disabled on my android phone and don't have the app, yet checking my Gmail app settings smart features was on. It must use server side AI then? I've turned it off now but I don't use the Gmail app anyway.

@Tutanota Classic enshitiification and yet another reason to stop using gmail.
In my browser I had to go settings (the gear icon), the scroll down under "General" and turn off the setting separately in gmail and workspace.

@Tutanota I'm getting spell checking with gmail and with "smart features" turned off. The trick is to use IMAP with an email client on your system. Then the spelling checks are done by software you've installed on your computer.

@Tutanota google does the same on youtube. Because I opted out of history collection, it shows me a blank page saying it can’t do any recommendations when it could at least show videos from my subscribed channels.

@Tutanota Yup, upside though, people can learn to spell, and fuck, even copy edit their shit.

@Tutanota I just experienced that yesterday and spent a couple hours deleting 50% of my mailbox as I complete my migration to Proton. #proton

@Tutanota the way Google is handling this is very catastrophic. Hopefully the USA will choose a less pro monopoly government next time...

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I'm hearing that I get all kinds of bonuses when I turn off spell check in Google.

@Tutanota Does this affect me if I use Thunderbird?

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Google uses all data it can get its hands on ... if not for AI, then for something else.

There is no point in turning Google features off. Turn Google off.

@Tutanota I know it's a biased post, but browsers and OSes have spell checking so one doesn't need to use Gmail's and I never liked those tabs.

But, since we are talking about this, is it just me or are Gmail spam filters kinda shitty? Lots of valid messages I get are being marked as spam and lots of spam are not being marked as spam.

@Tutanota Solution: Get rid of Google completely.

@Tutanota the malware bytes article I believe initially reported on this has been updated to say they were mistaken that it was ai scanning, are they mistaken?

@Tutanota Hmm yes that means Google know who's emails you are receiving, and very likely use the content for whatever they want (make money or train AI) grrrrr 😰😰😰

@Tutanota It’s the same for Youtube. You can turn off tracking. But that will also turn of video progress and search history. Even if you pay for Youtube they still track you.

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Browsers can do spell checking, too.

@Tutanota Thank you for the valuable information

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@Tutanota Luckily, it is quite easy to live without google. Like living without facebook, it even leads to less stress and unhappiness 🙂