A few weeks ago, I explicitly disabled it everywhere I could find within account.google.com and I’ve not used anything gemini since. Now I get this email and find it enabled on my devices.

By default Gemini has permissions to access everything on screen, view your contacts/messages, and can be used from the lockscreen…

I’m not all that surprised; but I’m still annoyed. Especially with the opt-out of data collection/access after it’s been given access to everything.

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        what’s the privacy vs pure security info? is GrapheneOS actually keeping our data more private or just making it really hard to get hacked?

        I’ve been on it for like a week now and love it

        • kat@orbi.campEnglish
          51·
          7 months ago

          It makes the former possible but you still meed to keep up on privacy hygiene. Check out privacyguides.org to help you with that. Privacy is a spectrum, so the trick is finding where you want to be and assesing what you have to sacrifice to do so.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          Security is the priority, but that does usually give you a good amount of privacy too.

          One example I remember where there was a clash was developing their sandboxed Google Play Services rather than supporting MicroG. I think their reasoning was that sandboxing the Google code makes it much more secure, and even though MicroG is more private from Google it’s still a mystery blob with full access to your device and therefore less secure.

    • truxnell@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      This is the way. I resisted doing a custom ROM based on past experience, but GrapheneOS is absolutely worth it. The day I saw Gemini in the text messaging app is the day I bit the bullet. Wish I did it sooner

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          This has actually been one of the biggest reasons I’ve been hesitant too. Looking at that list, my bank isn’t on it (a regional credit union), nor is my credit card provider which also has an app for management.

          Ontop of that, there’s a provincial ID app that’s recently rolled out. It’s become somewhat important for reaching certain government services and can only really be transfered from one working device to another unless you go through the whole process to have it issued again.

          I have no idea if that will work on graphine and I don’t have a second device to transfer it to while I wipe this and put a new ROM on it.

          I do want to try GraphineOS, but I think I’m going to wait for my next device and start from scratch with that.

          That does leave me with a question though. If you do install GraphineOS or another os/rom and it’s not working out for you; how hard is it to get back to factory, or at least back to a ‘standard’ android install?

    • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Can I install on a Samsung? I know computers and their bootloaders/OSs pretty well but phones are mostly a mystery