But Bard will also analyze the private content of messages “to understand the context of your conversations, your tone, and your interests.” It will analyze the sentiment of your messages, “to tailor its responses to your mood and vibe.” And it will “analyze your message history with different contacts to understand your relationship dynamics… to personalize responses based on who you’re talking to.”
I went through a degoogling phase a few years ago. I got really into it. But there is just so much constant device tinkering and tweaking that it can be a mental drain and time sink. Then you have to wonder how much good you’re doing in the first place. I just have to assume they’re getting my data somehow. I switched back, thinking it’s best not to stick out, and rather just try to blend in with the majority instead of looking like a suspicious person up to something when I all I really care about is privacy. I just don’t know what to do about this anymore.
Really? I switched everything for almost 3 years now, and to be honest for me was a “fire and forget” situation. I run /e/OS on my phone and I had basically no issues ever. I moved to Proton mail with a few clicks and their migration tool, I always used firefox, and then I switched to kagi.com as a search engine approx. 1 year ago. That’s pretty much it, but I have to say, I was not a very heavy user of all the bells and whistles Google makes.