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  • > go to System Settings – Apple Intelligence & Siri. Select About Siri, Dictation & Privacy… near the end of the page, turn off apps you don’t want Siri to learn from

    This is very user unfriendly.

    by thih9
  • Recently bothered by the Amazon Alexa for Shopping thing that slides out constantly and can’t be turned off, I found this Chrome extension.

    https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adios-alexa-for-sho...

    by dceddia
  • Oh! The joy of driving a 2010 car with 60,000 miles on it knowing it's more likely than not I've never have to experience CarPlay/Siri/etc.
    by bookofjoe
  • Hello -- this is mine! There's a short URL: https://NoToAI.org If people have suggestions I'll add them.
    by jessamyn
  • The article missed a few obvious ones:

    LibreWolf and Waterfox rip out the AI features with prejudice. I don't know anyone who uses Zen or Helium (and haven't heard of the latter).

    If you have an iPhone 14 or older, you're safe from any AI features and have legacy Siri.

    LibreOffice instead of Office

    Linux instead of Windows (and I will not be entertaining "but end users won't do that" - because that is false. Linux market share is growing year over year)

    Codeberg instead of GitHub

    VSCodium instead of VSCode

    by VCFundedGenYer
  • Switch to linux, that's what I did.

    Literally. The endless waves of companies forcing LLMs down our throats and into our workflows drove me off the mac. And windows is worse, which leaves linux.

    by kennywinker
  • Such a cool guide to such a bizarre problem we live in…

    Companies forcing features that nobody wants, but that are also expensive to operate and cost real money to run? Market can definitely stay irrational for long.

    by rad-b
  • I recently discovered that you need to have Siri enabled for Apple CarPlay. I expect we're going to see a lot of this where when you disable the AI functionality the devs won't have put in fallback states and you'll be effectively locked out. With CarPlay for instance there is no reason that I shouldn't be able to listen to my music or use the map without Siri. But things like responding to texts does rely on Siri, so just gate that piece. It is rather unfortunate.
    by dinkleberg

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