2026-04-21 05:34 UTC
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@socsa@piefed.social 2026-04-21 11:50
The way they are doing it is kind of sketchy though. They are replacing the old search functionality with Gemini and now if you click the search icon in Google photos it immediately pops up asking you to pick your own face. There's no option to skip this step, though you can still revert to the old search for now. The creepy part is that when they ask you to select your face, it's pretty clear they've already figured it out, because it's the first face they show you.
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@fodor@lemmy.zip 2026-04-21 08:58
Even when they say it's optional, it's never actually optional. They are always enabling it in the background and just preventing you from seeing that. But even if they actually did use an opt-in system properly, they would still only do that for like 6 months, and then in the next update you'd be forced to use it. And who can stop them? There is no alternative.
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@LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-21 12:38
Except anyone else that has ever taken my picture can opt-in for me, and I have no way of knowing if they did or not.