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From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: Google nag to turn Discover on (solution: Disable the Google app)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:39:15 -0700
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:08:38 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
> I mentioned disabling the Google app in my 2nd reply to you, but that
> was 5 hours after you posted your reply to yourself.  I didn't bother
> watching the Youtube video.  However, it wasn't clear that you actually
> disabled the Google app, only that it was suggested.

I did disable the Google app, and I'm pretty sure I haven't received 
a nag to turn on Discover since then. (By "pretty sure" I mean that I 
can't recall any instance of it popping up. But it's really hard to 
be certain of _not_ seeing something that I'm not actively looking 
for.)

Interestingly, when I opened Chrome, which is my only browser on my 
Android phone, the lower half of the screen was the beginning of a 
Discover feed! However, at the upper right of that feed was the 
three-dot menu icon, and when I tapped it one of the options was 
"Turn off", which of course I selected. Out of curiosity, I closed 
the Chrome app and restarted my phone, then started Chrome again. 
Discover remains off, for now at least.

Since Discover is in the settings of the Google app, not the Chrome 
app, maybe disabling the Google app meant that Chrome no longer had 
to that setting? In any case, Chrome seems to be remembering that I 
turned off Discover in Chrome. At least for now, it's not nagging me 
to turn it back on.

-- 
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...