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In exchange for less control of your device though... The other day my phone updated without my permission and replaced Google assistant with Gemini, also witho

• maxloh 1y ago
  Both Gemini and Google Assistant are parts of the Google App. They were introduced or deprecated with app updates. It is possible to reject the update. Just disable automatic updates of the Google App in the Play Store. You could even return to Google Assistant by reverting Google App to an older version.
  • rep_lodsb 1y ago
    Just disable automatic updates, so you can then instead yell at them about how they're compromising security? What is really needed is being able to choose what updates to install, and more generally, being able to get rid of all the crapware that uploads everything you do on your device to your corporate overlords. Not just particular "apps", but the operating system itself. The fact that most people in 2025 simply accept carrying around 24/7 a device with GPS, microphone, camera and wireless network connection, which they cannot control or even know what it does at all, is dystopian. Imagine if this was the norm with PCs back in the 1990s. Linux would never have existed, since there would have been no way to replace the pre-installed Microsoft OS with something else.
  • gonzalohm 1y ago
    That's the problem. My automatic updates are disabled and yet somehow that happened