Richard Stallman@rms@mastodon.xyz
[1/2] https://www.republicworld.com/business/google-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-secret-data-tracking-via-gemini-ai
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html#2_February_2025_(google_gemini_workspace)
A lawsuit accuses Google of activating its bullshit generator, Gemini, by default for various widely used apps, as a way of snooping on what users say in them. It's not impossible to deactivate Gemini, but Google has set up a "dark pattern" to make it so inconvenient that people will give
Richard Stallman@rms@mastodon.xyz
[2/2] up. Snooping, and dark patterns, are typical ways nonfree programs mistreat users. If you run a nonfree program, yo are helplessly at the mercy of any nonfree program's developer.