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Reminds me of how for the past few months Google Assistant regularly asks me "Auto read is on. Would you like to turn it off?" The insecurity is grating. I exp

Reminds me of how for the past few months Google Assistant regularly asks me "Auto read is on. Would you like to turn it off?" The insecurity is grating. I explicitly enabled this. I haven't wanted to turn it off the last hundred times you asked. Can you take a hint? Or at least make no a valid response, not just yes I'd like to turn it off?

WeylandYutani 3y ago
Just delete Google assistant. I assume that's possible on a Pixel?
- kneebonian 3y ago
  It is not, the best you can do is try and disable it.
  - _odey 3y ago
    I think you can delete it by connecting with adb and uninstalling the apk.
    - izacus 3y ago
      That's like the most broken way to do it. Instead go to "Google" app -> Settings -> Assistant -> General -> Switch it off. If you're still paranoid, disable the "Google" app as a whole in app settings which will do what your adb stuff was supposed to do.
    - boring_twenties 3y ago
      I thought it was baked into the Google app, and not shipped as a standalone apk
- iudqnolq 3y ago
  But I like that it reads texts to me while I'm driving. The whole problem is I don't want to turn it off.
causi 3y ago
If you want grating, tell a Google Home to "shut the fuck up" and watch in awe as it proceeds to complain about you being rude to it.
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  What even is the point of that? Imposing puritan values on customers or some nonsense?
  - retSava 3y ago
    The point is probably, by making the assistant more human-like, you'll grow more attached to it and use it more, depend on it. Perhaps even trust it when it suggests that you should buy this or that, or that it cannot open the airlock, Dave. Also perhaps some focus group showed that you need it to be more human-like so it doesn't scare off tech-adversies. Or some random dude at google thought it'd be funny. But I put my money on it being used for improving some metric somewhere.
    - causi 3y ago
      It may me throw all my Google Home pucks in the garbage can and replace them with Echo Dots. When you tell Alexa to cram it she shuts up.
  - prepend 3y ago
    The point is that some programmer (or probably PM) think it’s a better resource to custom program that response rather than to address fixing whatever the device did to make you curse at it. I think this is an assumption that the device is right and the user is wrong. So chiding them on manners is thought to be the right product move, rather than using it as input for finding better device behavior.
  - rideontime 3y ago
    They think giving their digital assistants a “personality” will endear you to them, without consideration of context.
hulitu 3y ago
> . I haven't wanted to turn it off the last hundred times you asked. Can you take a hint? No. You are asking too much. Since at least 30 years, having a dialog window without a close button is considered bad GUI design, but for Google, this is normal.
- tadfisher 3y ago
  Do we really need a third way to close dialogs? (Tap outside dialog, press Back)
  - antifa 3y ago
    That's actually the first way to close a dialog window. The ways you mentioned don't exist on all platforms and might not be desired behavior for all dialog models.

WeylandYutani 3y ago

Just delete Google assistant. I assume that's possible on a Pixel?

kneebonian 3y ago
It is not, the best you can do is try and disable it.
- _odey 3y ago
  I think you can delete it by connecting with adb and uninstalling the apk.
  - izacus 3y ago
    That's like the most broken way to do it. Instead go to "Google" app -> Settings -> Assistant -> General -> Switch it off. If you're still paranoid, disable the "Google" app as a whole in app settings which will do what your adb stuff was supposed to do.
  - boring_twenties 3y ago
    I thought it was baked into the Google app, and not shipped as a standalone apk
iudqnolq 3y ago
But I like that it reads texts to me while I'm driving. The whole problem is I don't want to turn it off.

causi 3y ago

If you want grating, tell a Google Home to "shut the fuck up" and watch in awe as it proceeds to complain about you being rude to it.

Waterluvian 3y ago
What even is the point of that? Imposing puritan values on customers or some nonsense?
- retSava 3y ago
  The point is probably, by making the assistant more human-like, you'll grow more attached to it and use it more, depend on it. Perhaps even trust it when it suggests that you should buy this or that, or that it cannot open the airlock, Dave. Also perhaps some focus group showed that you need it to be more human-like so it doesn't scare off tech-adversies. Or some random dude at google thought it'd be funny. But I put my money on it being used for improving some metric somewhere.
  - causi 3y ago
    It may me throw all my Google Home pucks in the garbage can and replace them with Echo Dots. When you tell Alexa to cram it she shuts up.
- prepend 3y ago
  The point is that some programmer (or probably PM) think it’s a better resource to custom program that response rather than to address fixing whatever the device did to make you curse at it. I think this is an assumption that the device is right and the user is wrong. So chiding them on manners is thought to be the right product move, rather than using it as input for finding better device behavior.
- rideontime 3y ago
  They think giving their digital assistants a “personality” will endear you to them, without consideration of context.

hulitu 3y ago

> . I haven't wanted to turn it off the last hundred times you asked. Can you take a hint? No. You are asking too much. Since at least 30 years, having a dialog window without a close button is considered bad GUI design, but for Google, this is normal.

tadfisher 3y ago
Do we really need a third way to close dialogs? (Tap outside dialog, press Back)
- antifa 3y ago
  That's actually the first way to close a dialog window. The ways you mentioned don't exist on all platforms and might not be desired behavior for all dialog models.