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Just to clarify, we were discussing gmail search and not the main web search. I just tested again, if I search for 1-1/2" (with the quote mark) I get zero results.

This is google-for-business or whatever they call it now.

You are not wrong there!

It is even worse if you commit the offense of searching for something with an unmatched quotation mark. (Like 1-1/2" for example). Zero results, every time. Makes searching for trades related information in my emails a pain.

It is absurd. I disabled Gemini for my organization, and Google in return disables tab completion in gmail entirely. They are practically demanding I find an alternative at this point.

I was so terribly sad to learn that gold is much more dense than a duck, and thus Scrooge would have certainly floated on top of his pool of coins. My childhood was ruined.

Now that I think about it, it would seem this may also apply to witches.

Ah well, teach me to proof read. Keeping it.

On a long eunuch time line, all laptops are ephemeral!

You're right. The people working there now have had plenty of time to learn about these egregious crimes and implement better policy so that they don't repeat the crimes of their predecessors... Right?

The start? This has been going on for as long as I can recall. ExxonMobil, Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Nestle, Purdue Pharma, Monsanto, Johnson and Johnson, Volkswagen, Meta, Boeing... and those are just off the top of my head. Each of these companies was either caught red handed, convicted (in court or in public opinion) and walked away with little to no penalty for their crimes.

This isn't the start of anything. We've been living in the era of Corporate non-liability for decades.

Iirc, this is a pattern of the flatpack version of Firefox. I do not believe the .deb does this.

This gotcha only works if you are a user of only their free services.

When Google charges me a monthly fee for storage, takes a percentage of my Play Store sales, or manufactures a Pixel that I purchase from their online store, I am absolutely their customer. I may also be providing data they will sell, but I am still paying them for goods or services and that makes me a customer.

The problem is that they continue treating their customers like livestock, and it seems they have little incentive to change.

Customer support has gotten so terrible. Now that all big companies have terrible support, none of them are punished for it. You can still occasionally find people who give a shit in small business, but that is it. Google is probably one of the worst offenders of all. I don't know what the solution is, it seems like the only way to get any satisfaction on an issue at a big corp anymore is a social medial call-out like this one.

If you are here, thank you for Conversations, Daniel, it has been my go-to for years for communicating with friends and family.

It does. You do have to install it (GrapheneOS provides a Play Store Sandbox to install google apps to) intentionally, it is not installed by default. Perhaps that tripped up the author of the misinformation you came across?

In any case, it is a fantastic OS with many of the annoyances of Android removed. (Scoped file permissions are fantastic, for example) If you are on the fence, I'd suggest giving it a shot. Replacing a phone OS might seem scary, but it is really pretty similar to use.

No android auto? What are you basing this on? I ask because I am responding from grapheneos while connected to android auto, and I am concerned I am in the wrong universe again.