Doesnt Apple also do this with Siri and basically every app unless the user untoggles it?

Laughs in Graphene

Not a day goes by that I don't regret installing that on my phone.

Why? Curious.

So you regret it every day? GOS is amazing in my opinion. What's your gripe with it?

Yes and you have to untoggle it for each and every app individually

What I'm curious is what kind of ball are you shaped like?

A golf ball? With divots all over your skin? A basketball? Just round? A baseball? With stitches all over your skin like later years Chucky? A football? Are you Stewie Griffen? Testicles? Wait, are you saying your whole body is one big testicle? Oh my god, the Iron Shiek wasn't speaking broken english! He was just talking about you!!! "I hit him right in the ball this big!"

Not a day goes by that I DON'T regret installing it on my phone

Double negatives are hard. I love Graphene.

Your chats are saved in your account for up to 72 hours, whether Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.

Welcome to My Activity

(myactivity.google.com)

I wonder how long before AI services are added to ad blockers and VPN privacy controls.

Does this induce a current?

This... Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don't care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.

I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It's extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.

The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I'm sure they wave away the laws because of "financial security" or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn't suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some "graphene contactless payment" type systems or workarounds, and I couldn't find anything that would fill the gap.

Lol! ️ run on rants.

And I used to be quite overweight with a large gut. My kids used to say I was 19 months pregnant. The weight is gone but I kept the name.

That is literally the only thing keeping me from installing Graphene on my phone.

I installed GrapheneOS for the security and lack of Google. I didn't know it was a very nice stock Android without any crap. I love it.

I use a smart watch for contact less payments ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, Google Assistant is getting replaced with Gemini and so far that was the biggest pain point of mine: No I don't want to turn on Gemini activity history, yes I still want to be able to make calls with it...

This is nicer, imo. You can just not have Gemini app to not let this happen. 72 hour retention is pretty standard, if not better than most of free LLM providers. I hate Google with passion and I try to avoid them as much as possible but Gemini is just so darn easy to use. I also use Kagi and their assistant does most of the heavy lifting & privacy concerning.

so jealous, wish it or lineage os worked on any of my phones

Try Curve Pay. Just learned about it yesterday.
I added my credit card and it just works.
Couldn't be happier.

Yes, for the amount of hate Google gets... Which I think it is fair to be critical of any product that compromises privacy... I recently tried helping my mom clean up her iPhone, and seriously like 100x worse. Almost everything you do on Apple demands you have another Apple device. One of the worst experiences I've ever dealt with.