| ▲ | arjie 4 hours ago |
| Overly aggrieved style of writing. There's some prompts in Gmail to use AI. These are supposedly indictments of the author's writing or intellect? Anyway, the setting is in General and then Cmd-F "smart" and turn everything off. |
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| ▲ | tomodachi94 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Unfortunately, this also turns off the Primary/Promotions/Social/Updates categorization. |
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| ▲ | arjie 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | But so does the author's solution of switching to Fastmail so surely that's not a non-negotiable feature. Manual labeling and filtering still works. |
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| ▲ | WarOnPrivacy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > the setting is in General and then Cmd-F "smart" and turn everything off. Once done, users still get the... "Press / for Help me write" or
"Press / to write using your GMail and Drive"
...prompt, crapped onto every new email. Find the lever to disable that; I dare you. |
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| ▲ | lern_too_spel 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | uBlock Origin. The easy customizability of web applications is why I prefer them over other proprietary applications when there are no open source choices. In this particular case, if the whole UI is irredeemable, you can access your mail with IMAP or POP. | | |
| ▲ | WarOnPrivacy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > uBlock Origin. I did try this without success. > if the whole UI is irredeemable, you can access your mail with IMAP or POP. I access my mail across a doz machines - and I support scores of users. Setting up stand-alone/3rd party clients (at scale) is a bit unwieldy. The bad actor here turns out to be the Chrome browser. Every other browser behaves better in this. |
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| ▲ | highpost 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That was ... easy. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why do people have to go to this, to turn off the AI slop? |
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| ▲ | munk-a 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Because AI is the next hot thing and it would be impossible to ship our product without AI features available... but for some reason users don't tend to opt into our new AI features that I staked my career on... Am I so out of touch? No, it's the users that are wrong. Opt them in by default and our usage will skyrocket! | | | |
| ▲ | Bang2Bay 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | is gmail a paid service? | | |
| ▲ | WarOnPrivacy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > is gmail a paid service? Yes it is. We pay $6-$14 per user per mo, for the privilege of dealing with GMail's foistware. | |
| ▲ | elaus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes, people pay with their personal data (Alphabet is not a charity) | |
| ▲ | DrewADesign 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Google can’t spend two decades getting bazillions of people to rely on what’s essentially internet infrastructure at this point, and then pretend their hands aren’t dirty when they suddenly crank the enshittification juicer up to 11 because they need to justify the gobsmscking capex for their largely hated new service. There’s nothing legally stopping them from doing that, but that’s very different than right and wrong. |
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| ▲ | skywhopper 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I guess you might need to use AI to summarize the article for you, because he addresses the fact that you can’t turn the intrusive AI off without also turning off some things he finds helpful. |
