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Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no
(www.laptopmag.com)
Not on my GrapheneOS, it's not.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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For now, until the good devs of GrapheneOS are no longer able to keep up with Google's aosp fuckery :(
Well the GrapheneOS team is able to keep ot going for now. If they can't in the future, I'll find another phone that can take a degoogled OS.
Yeah. It'll be an annoying search, but I'll be right there with you.
You do have the option to use non-Google messaging and dialer/phone apps that are not controlled by or otherwise interact with Gemini.
Kinda ridiculous that you need them, but the option is still there.
Any suggestions?
I use an old-school messaging app, QKSMS. No frills. I'll probably switch back to Should I Answer for phone, but I barely use my phone as a phone.
I've tried calling someone with f-droid but I can't find where to dial their number?
That's what you think.
I mean, Google has been sued and lost for antitrust violations over far less egregious behavior than blocking third-party apps in favor of their own.
May be tangential, but Google Voice did this for the first time earlier this year. I've since moved as many of my people over to signal as possible
Not for me it isn't.
You have to install Gemini.
It came stock on my OnePlus 13 as an integrated app.
I was able to run it as a guest, but then Google changed it so that you're forced to log in with your Google account in order to use it.
Google literally has to ruin everything.
Not Google. One plus does that.
Don't simp for this misinformation.
Mind expanding on that?
This reads the same as similar headlines from almost 10 years ago, about Google Voice or some such iirc.
Back then "but Google is actually doing good things in IT" was still going strong and people pointing this out were often dismissed as tinfoil hatters even if the proof was there; I'm glad that has changed somewhat.