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It's a worse spellchecker, too. I need to do emails in a few different languages a day, and old one was pretty good at naturally swapping between them. I started getting spelling suggestions to change Catalan words to English they vaguely resembled this week, and just this morning found out why ^^^

Ohh I am fully aware of the house of cards they have going on there. Doesn't make me any less pissed at this level of bullshit

I'm just sooooo glad that I now pay like $10 more a month for Google Workspaces _with AI_ that I'll never ever use.

Indeed. When I refused to turn on Microsoft's LLM, MS Word stopped allowing me to convert Word files to PDFs - another feature that existed long before LLMs.

I just tested it and my browser's built in spellchecker still seems to work.

THIS is what infuriates me, is the spell checker no longer working.

It looks like malwarebytes updates their blog confirming my suspicion, and that their previous reporting was inaccurate. Hoping folks whose email inboxes became harder to use don't have to suffer.

AI/Machine Learning was *always* used to classify email categories, since the feature was first introduced (this would be true for any email provider doing automatic classification, not just gmail).

Every damn thing a tech company does should be ‘opt in’ by default.

I understand your suspicion. Tech companies will continue to add AI where you don't want it. Google is legally bound not to train on private emails, and I personally know the people there who would blow the whistle if they did. They should definitely communicate this better.

It's part of enshittification process--they get you dependent on some feature, then make it contingent on some bullshit stealing of your stuff.

Sounds like a headache but it does look like it didn't delete the actual emails, just the feature that sorts them? Am I correct? (That's bad enough, like 100% asshole move, but the alternative would surely get them sued.)

Yes, they disappear from the top bar, but it seems you can still access them from the list on the left

Thank you for sharing this information! 🙏

I bought Proton and NordVPN yesterday to export all my Gmail acccounts stuff and leave Google's cloud They both have good Black friday offers.

Losing Inbox was the beginning of the end

I'll be following this, as I just had the exact same experience - turned off "smart" features and all the pre-existing category tabs went away, leaving all my emails in one big clump! 😡

Yup - it's the full douche move. "Oh you want that feature? Well then we need access to everything of yours." F that. I'll live without it.

i was suffering delirium until i read this now im so fucking mad

Nice 😅

Extortion via enshitification. We will see more of this. Use our AI or suffer.

Good to know, though the sorting is not exactly the same, sadly.

Also gone: Spelling and Grammar checks, Autocorrect, Package tracking. I am all-in on the use of the major tabs! Damn...

It’s not “like” that, it’s precisely that. “If you’re not going to do what we want, we’re going to make it as difficult as possible for you until you do.” Fuck you, Google. That makes me all the more determined not to change my mind.

I'm so mad that they tied that to AI when they clearly don't need to, since we had it for years without!

Does that include attachments?