Yeah, to me this reads like: Google's Gemini harness is providing the user context on every query, but if you have memory turned off they're putting something in the prompt like "Here's the user context, but don't use it". Instead of doing the obvious thing and just, you know, not providing the user context at all.

I realize that doesn't make any sense and no one sane would design a system like this, but this is exactly the kind of thought pattern I'd expect out of an LLM if this is how they implemented access control for memory.

>but if you have memory turned off they're putting something in the prompt like "Here's the user context, but don't use it". Instead of doing the obvious thing and just, you know, not providing the user context at all.

But there's no indication the OP turned off the feature? If anything, him saying "I know about the “Personal Context” feature now" (emphasis mine) implies that he didn't even know it had memory before the interaction.