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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

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469 points bundie | 3 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sega_sai ◴[08 Jul 25 17:24 UTC] No.44502108[source]▶
The whole situation with Gemini Apps Activity setting is so frustrating. Even if I pay for Gemini Pro, the only way to make sure there will be no human looking at your chats is to set Apps Activity to off, which means you don't have any history for Gemini chats, even for the messages from a minute ago.
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Barbing ◴[08 Jul 25 17:54 UTC] No.44502389[source]▶
Reminiscent of their heavy handed approach to disabling watch history on YouTube, even when paying for YouTube Premium.

(Google punishes viewers who make themselves less valuable to advertisers by giving them an entirely blank homepage.)

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1. kccqzy ◴[08 Jul 25 18:27 UTC] No.44502653[source]▶
It's not a punishment; it's entirely transactional. You make yourself less valuable to advertisers so you also make yourself less valuable to Google. Therefore Google provides you with fewer features such as a blank homepage.

The era of Google providing costly features to users with no benefit to itself is coming to an end.

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2. T4iga ◴[08 Jul 25 19:04 UTC] No.44502982[source]▶
Except you missed that part where they said > Premium

If you pay for it, you can expect to not be the product.

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3. AlexandrB ◴[08 Jul 25 20:28 UTC] No.44503780[source]▶
I think that ship sailed a few years ago. It's better for big tech if you pay and be the product so they went ahead and did that.