Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I’m not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.
Writers: It’s asking to read your Google Docs and be able to ‘summarize’ things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.
Because this isn’t mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.
This is all in the “privacy” tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN’T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that’s what the picker in ublock is for. 😉
More detail instructions for OP’s post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don’t know what they look like on phones.
When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose “Extension”, like this:
Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.
Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you’ll see it tells you that it’s already “turn off”. NO! IT’S NOT! You have to click on that “Turn off” option, it’ll drop down a menu like this:
Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:
And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there’s nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.
After you’s done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.
Click on the “Privacy” tab, choose the button “Manage Workspace smart feature setting”
Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.
Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can’t get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((
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A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️
this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in…i could watch videos of this practical joke all day
Their faces as they collectively realize they’re married to the funniest women on the planet
Top-notch prank: no hurt feelings, no embarrassment, keeps getting funnier as it goes.
i think the scariest exam i ever took was in my Fisheries Management 400 course, the final semester of my degree. our final exam was an essay response to a management prompt. each of us pulled a slip of paper out of a jar at the start of the exam, for a unique fisheries management situation. like a recovery project in a salmon habitat, etc. then we wrote a response as if we were the project manager, detailing how we would manage, execute, and accomplish the project.
so i got my prompt and my heart sank because as i read it, i could only think that what i was assigned to manage was impossible. the prompt explained that a farmer asked me to stock a fishing pond with a specific species & create a self-sustaining population. based on the location and the ecological parameters of this imaginary pond, i knew it would be impossible to accomplish his goal to maintain a self-sustaining population of his target species.
basically, the answer was, “The client’s request is not possible [short explanation as to why]” and “I would recommend alternative species, or repeated manual stocking.”
In the end, my essay response was 3 sentences long. It took me 5 minutes to think over and write. By the time I wrote down my answer, most of my classmates hadn’t even picked up their pencils. They were still thinking over their no doubt far more involved management prompts. We had 2 hours to take the exam.
I sat there having a crisis for 15 minutes until I finally walked to the front and put my notebook down on the professor’s desk.
I said, quietly, unsure if he’d give me ANY hints, “surely…..this should be longer?” He raised his eyebrows and said, “Do you trust yourself and what you’ve learned in this class?” I said, “Uh. I think so?” He said, “Then you’ll have to trust it’s as long as it’s supposed to be.”
I decided to think those were encouraging words so I left the class, 15 minutes into a final exam that allowed 2 hours for my response.
Went home and took a Xanax. Got an 100%.
Nobody better ever do that to me EVER again.
This is a completely unethical way to run an exam. Congratulations to you though I’m glad you succeeded.
oh I disagree! this is a real-world fisheries management scenarios. people make unrealistic requests of wildlife & fisheries managers all the time. much of a fisheries & wildlife manager’s career is explaining the why and how of a habitat and its populations. in my four years (and 7 fisheries management courses) at the school, I learned how to create, restore, and generally manage habitats for a variety of target fish species. i absolutely should be equipped to identify when a project isn’t possible, communicate it to a client in terms they understand, and recommend alternatives. i absolutely should have known the answer to this question, and i did! it only threw me off because it was so simple. this prompt tested me on my knowledge of game fish species, and their chemical, geographical, temperature, and food source requirements. all things everyone else needed to know to answer their own prompts.
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