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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

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467 points bundie | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.348s | 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. ckosidows ◴[10 Jul 25 21:38 UTC] No.44525895[source]▶
Shhh! Don't let Google know about this trick. I've gotten stuck in approximately 0 doom scroll loops since disabling view history and I'd like to keep it that way.