#GMail

[booksandotherdrugs]

When you do this, the promotions and social category filters will NO LONGER WORK in your Gmail inbox.

I keep my primary inbox at zero. Now I have almost SIXTY THOUSAND EMAILS??? Checking on the inbox categories in settings (in both the app and web browser) doesn't work. The inbox will refresh with no change, and then going back into the settings will show all the boxes unchecked again.

Which is frankly complete and INSIDIOUS bullshit because the filters worked BEFORE Google released Gemini. I've had Gmail for 19 years, and this is honestly so frustrating. I don't want smart features shoved down my throat.

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

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.

[osterby]

So google added an AI chatbot icon to all their products. You can simply refrain from using it and can turn off tracking activity in the privacy settings, easy enough, but the stupid icon will still mock you

Add this to your uBlock origin filters to get rid of it on gmail: mail.google.com##.e5IPTd.r4vW1e And this to get rid of it on Drive: docs.google.com##.appsElementsSidekickEntryPointRoot

Tadah!

[star01007]

[ralfmaximus]

January 24 2024 Scam Alert:

There's a new phishing email making the rounds that looks like an authentic message from Google, warning you that unless you take action your Gmail account will be closed and all your messages deleted. All you have to do is click the link to confirm or deny the action.

It is, of course, fake. It collects your password "for verification" then hijacks your account.

Don't click any link in an email no matter how official it looks. Instead, go to your Gmail dashboard directly. If there is indeed any risk Google wants to delete your account, you'll be notified there.

[iwannabeabricklayer]

Gmail!! …and tord ig

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[todays-xkcd]

Hi all, just replying to loop in *@outlook.com and *@yahoo.com.

*@gmail.com [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A typical gmail UI] To: *@gmail.com (+expand) Cc: [Empty field] Bcc: [Empty field] Subj: New Friends Hey all! Go ahead and introduce yourself! [Caption:] If Google ever decides to shut down Gmail, they should let one user trigger a global reply-all apocalypse.

[snarp]

Bad Google behavior of the day:

I search my Gmail account for the word "Biolage" (it's a shampoo, and I want to see if I can figure out how long ago I got the bottle in the cabinet). Gmail returns 4 results using the term "Biolage", and also many hundreds of emails I have sent or received containing the word "matrix." Because the shampoo is manufactured by a company called "Matrix".

Matrix is a word more-commonly-used in other contexts; and a person searching their own email for Product Name is probably not going to also want results for Parent Corporation Name, even in situations in which that name is NOT a moderately-common fucking noun. But Google doesn't care, because Matrix buys ads from them and presumably pays them to link these terms together and such.

Anyway, you have to put terms in quotes to prevent Gmail from playing corporate word-association games intended to drive ad revenue in unrelated Google products.

[viejospellejos]

Gmail cada vez que intento conectarme a mi cuenta desde otro dispositivo:

[cornflakesinchocolatemilk]

Whatever happened to sending demons

[welele]

Bueno, nos obligó a ir a outlook.

[u1trav10l3nc3]

Straight up heat

[chifelcake]

wayt by th wai heres one of m dogs

hes so stupid

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Simple Poll

[official-gmail]

subject: introduction

hi. welcome to Gmail!

we hope you enjoy never being able to find your messages again 😊

we are NOT in a hate romance with Microsoft, stop asking

[porscha-jay]