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How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton (proton.me)
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  • In your Gmail app, go to Settings.
  • Select your Gmail address.
  • Clear the Smart features checkbox.
  • Go to Google Workspace smart features.
  • Clear the checkboxes for: Smart features in Google Workspace, Smart features in other Google products
  • If you have more Gmail accounts, repeat these steps for each one.
  • Turning off Gemini in Gmail also disables basic, long-standing features like spellchecking, which predate AI assistants. This design choice discourages opting out and shows how valuable your AI-processed data is for Google.

This has finally gotten me to take steps to deGoogle my email, Fastmail trial underway.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 78 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (17 children)

Proton has their own AI bullshit:

https://lumo.proton.me/

At least it’s not rummaging around your email though.

And just so you know, it is not end-to-end encrypted like their email is when emailing another Proton user: https://lumo.proton.me/legal/privacy

The only way to have actually private AI is to run it on your own hardware.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

No one is forcing you to use it. Having a european AI like Lumo that encrypts transcripts is great in comparison to shady big tech companies. Yes I know the full context is sent each time the AI wants to generate something. But still, I'm happy they offer it.

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