With regard to the stupidly confusing "Will #Gemini hoover up all chats from Android phones" stuff, my interpretation is that nothing will change for anyone who doesn't actively use Gemini - even if you don't flip the stupid switches off, it shouldn't access your chats if you don't ask it about anything. All the references to the retention of "conversations" by Google in the support doc appear to be referring to "conversations" with Gemini itself. Where Sandboxed Google Play or de-Googling (depending on the user's needs, means and threat model) is not an option, the best thing you can do is uninstall or disable any Gemini app and set the default "Digital Assistant app" to nothing (but at least on some phones this will change it to a screen begging you to re-enable Google Assistant (or Gemini now, I guess?)). If the phone's user can use another search engine or even just get used to accessing Google through the browser, you can do one better and disable/uninstall the Google app, which is bloated af and used as a vehicle for roughly half of this shit.
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