I got tired of Google shoving AI down my throat in yet another place in my phone.
I’m surprised it even gave me the choice to “report and block”.
Is this really what the non-FOSS android experience has become nowadays!? AI chatbots in your messages app? This seems absolutely miserable. I think I finally understand why there are so many iOS users out there.
The other day, I asked Meta AI how to deactivate it from WhatsApp. It recommended me to use a third party WhatsApp client. I always thought this was not allowed, but if meta itself recommends me this I guess it’s OK.
Meanwhile I asked in my native language and it started typing out the way to do it, then edited the message to say something like “I can’t speak that language yet”.
Unfortunately after screenrecording and reading it back, the setting it speaks of does not exist.
Thumbs up for reporting it as spam.
Is there a better SMS app on android? I tried switching to a FOSS app but I was missing messages and group messages completely didn’t work, so I went back to Google’s app.
Mmmmm gotta get hated buuut…SMS Organizer by Microsoft. It’s in beta, but it works and works well.
Only thing that bugs me is I didn’t find search feature…
Just use fossify messages and move your group chats to Signal.
That’s something I’d like to find too. I’ve been using Textra Pro for years, but I have yet to find a FOSS alternative that rivals it
Sure would love if it respected the fact that I already opted out and disabled it in the app settings, but yeah its nice that you can still block it. Give it a week and they’ll change that just like Snapchat did with their stupid fucking AI chatbot thats now forcibly pinned to the top of my chats list with no way to remove it unless you pay a monthly subscription.
Yes, but you have also angered Roko’s Basilisk.
I did the same thing with Snapchats account. They won’t let me unfriend it but I could mute and rename it to “leave me the fuck alone”
That shit was permanently pinned at the top for me. I also named it “Dumb Bitch” and never interacted with it even once. Infuriating to say the least. What made me finally delete it and lose my thousands+ streaks was the ads. Rest in rip in actual piss Snapchat
That Gemini chat in messages is also completely useless, as they didn’t implement a memory so the bot will lose context and give irrelevant responses immediately at the first reply.
If this appears on my phone I’m going to have to decide whether to try to block it or keep it as a way to cuss at it when I’m in the mood to burn some of Google’s electricity bill
I am so sick of that meta ai button that can’t be disabled in WhatsApp that I constantly paste the bee movie script just to let them pay hundreds of thousands of useless tokens. Hopefully one day they will block me or let me block that shit
Literally the first thing I did.
The real lifeprotips is in the shitposts
Google forced my assistant to change to Gemini. The only thing that cursed machine has ever heard me say is “how do I switch back to the old Google Assistant?”
It is likely that they don’t already have a way to exclude certain numbers from the report and block feather yet, but will implement one if the number of people blocking it gets too high.
