Wandering Adventure Party

If you're wanting to avoid AI force-feeding, watch out for #Chrome. Not only does it have AI built it, but it will put Gemini in the MacOS menu bar to keep running all the time. I only found it after I was cleaning out the menu bar for another project I was working on and found the Gemini icon back behind a bunch of other apps. I've since moved away from Chrome. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/16283624?hl=en-en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

I'm really digging the #ZenBrowser as something not built on Chromium, has a number of modern features, plenty of privacy settings, works with Firefox plugins, and I can't find any instances of AI being forced on the user here (yet).

Here's a post about Zen from @ben https://werd.io/why-im-all-in-on-zen-browser/

Here's the information for how to turn off the 15 different settings in #Zoom all using AI. In other words, it's not a quick process but worth digging into: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0077464

FYI - Been going through and finding where I can shut AI off in apps that are force-feeding it. I believe that AI should be used with consent first.

I'll post things here as I find them: