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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Google nag to turn Discover on
Date: 21 Mar 2025 19:09:17 GMT
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Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:19:16 -0700, Stan Brown wrote:
> > 
> > Google Pixel 8a phone, Android 15
[...]
> I googled when I first noticed this problem a few weeks ago, but came 
> up empty. I tried again, after posting my followup to Vanguard's 
> article, and this time I got some ideas from this video:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ubt2sFO1A
> 
> 1. Long-press on the home screen -- not Google's home screen, the 
> phone's home screen. Tap "Home settings".
> 
> 2. Disable "Swipe to access Google app". (I tend to slide a little 
> bit when tapping on my phone screen, so maybe I'd been unknowingly 
> swiping enough to open the Google app a third of the time.)

  Well, if you still had your/a Samsung phone, you wouldn't have had
this problem! :-) (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

  To be [f|F]rank, a Samsung phone has a similar, equally annoying
(default) setting: Accidental right swipe opens 'Samsung Free').

  As we say in our country, you get bitten, either by the dog or the
cat.

[...]