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.
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
it should be considered harassment to advertise like this
Advertisements should be considered harassment.
The only ads I get are from temu vaguely aligned with my interests
I do not sell drugs, I’m on the other side of that market
flute kinda looks like a fancy penjamin
I like using shotguns in videogames sometimes. I’ve only seen a real one a handful of times.
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.
That is neat!
Is it true that in Spanish, the word “propaganda” can be used interchangeably with “publicidad,” which means advertising?
Hmm, I never thought about it but it’s apparently a thing. I’m a bit Americanized so my perception is a bit different than the general population, so TIL.
Here’s the official definition by the Royal Academy of Spain that confirms it:
https://dle.rae.es/propagandaYep, propaganda is very commonly used to talk about ads
Proton does something similar in their email client 🤢
It is
Time to move to something else
Taking a play out of Microsoft’s book. Must be desperate.
Hey Google.
I still can’t create folders in the Android Gmail app. But somehow you had time for this?
“I’m sorry, I don’t know how to help with that”
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.
Yeah that was the first thing I checked too as I was certain I disabled it all. Hopefully Gemini goes the same path as countless other Google products
Gemini: “to create a folder, right click on the desktop, select new, them select folder. When the folder icon appears, type the name you want for your new folder.”
Me: No… in Gmail!
Gemini: “Gmail is a google service for emails”
Me: No! How do I create folders in Gmail??
Gemini: “Email folders are a great way to sort and organize your emails into easily searchable categories.”
Me: Never mind. Thanks for nothing.
Gemini:
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.
But how much do you really know about Driving Mode?
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.
Delete your Google account already
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.
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
If you are willing to forego Google Pay, I strongly recommend GrapheneOS.
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
Yeah, I have a 7 pro and it seems more like top of mid-tier device rather than a flagship, but I got it for GrapheneOS and will buy Pixel again just because of it.
Had the 6 Pro, 7 Pro, 8 Pro, and now 9 Pro
I feel like the 8 Pro is the best of that series, but I don’t have hard evidence to explain why
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.
It can’t control its personality either. So when you say something like “set an alarm for 5:30am”, and it hears you wrong you say, “Set An Alarm For 5 30 AM”. Slowing down and annunciating. Then it responds Oh Kay repeating your cadence as if it needs to annunciate to you because you don’t understand, haha. Every time someone has heard it around me as been like, wow, that’s a sassy bitch.
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.
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
I think it’s from “Google Workspaces” that you have to remove it from.
I have it on my phone and occasionally it think I’m asking it to do something like writing an email and then it’ll say I have to enable Gemini in Google Worspaces or something.
Idk hope I’ve provided some info idk
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.
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
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.
I’m pretty sure kneading is a way they mark territory and express feeling safe, glad to be corrected.
I think it’s a behavior from nursing
Yep. It stimulates milk production and their paws contain scent glads that let them “mark” people or things. It’s a high honor to be kneaded on by the fuzzy guys.
Gemini: “I can’t help you! I only work here!”
I can’t help you. I don’t work.
K-9 mail/Thunderbird Mail
Not totally Foss but I don’t think it is bad. I just like k-9 better.
K9 stopped supporting gmail, only thunderbird does now
Oh, no, the leopard ate your face.
Why are you using Google in the first place, if you don’t want things like this?
Cause I live in the real world and my employees aren’t rocket scientists
FireFox isn’t any more complicated than Chrome. In fact the user experience is easier and nicer. Alternative email providers aren’t a big mystery either. Maybe don’t underestimate people or put a modicum of effort into switching your company away from big tech platforms that don’t give a shit about you or your employees.
this is the gmail app on android. It rolled out to everyone on staff this morning and there is no setting to turn it off, never existed before.
I found this. Don’t know if it helps
Yeah I had already turned it off for everyone. But the button is permanently in place for now
That’s shitty
Not everyone on Lemmy cares about their privacy that much.
Well, evidently.
Surprised you made it over to lemmy. Whatever your reason was, im glad you took a step towards protecting your privacy.
Honest question: how is Lemmy more private?
I made it over to Lemmy cause idk why reddit was a toxic mess and i was trying to find a alterntive to Reddit.
Agree this is shit UX but…
How am I just now discovering you can do the swipe to change accounts
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?
I did not know you could do that… It’s a great usability feature, and they probably ditched it because nobody uses it, because nobody knows about it, because they’ve done precisely nothing to help people find it
Well, it’s still working on mine for personal email, I hope they don’t kill it off entirely, but I’ve lost hope googie will ever stop destroying good user experiences in favor of shittier ones that have less functionality (I’m still pissed about Inbox and Play Music)
Same with the open tab number/button in Firefox mobile (and its derivatives). Swipe left/right on that button.
Better than when they switched sides in the play store and my thumb couldn’t reach the check for updates :(
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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.
Ah yes, the slop button. Truly the pinnacle of productivity.
