How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More (Consumer Reports)

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5. None of those exist in my personal universe.

I have an old flip phone I use as a phone. Occasionally I use it for texts.

In general AI "services" are blacklisted on my Linux computers. there's no meta, no site-formerly-known-as-twitter, no google search, no apple, no microsoft, no advertising.

The only google service I use is youtube where I block any AI crap that appears on my youtube home page. Evidently the youtube algorithm is smart enough that AI crap rarely shows up there any more.

We shouldn't have to actively block any of that crap or delete preinstalled apps. Excluding AI ought to be the default setting.

I'll confess to being some kind of Luddite. I was happiest with the world wide web back in the HTML 3 era when you could turn off javascript, avoid plugins such as java, flash, or quicktime, and most web sites continued to work just fine.