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The trigger isn't search or Gmail. It's the kitchen speaker that used to read back a clean snippet and now delivers a four-minute Gemini monologue, asking follow-up questions until users start shouting "cancel" and "stop."

Several readers report the same regression on Android Auto: ask for one song, get something "vaguely semantically related with no way to course correct."

But the flip is sharper than the rant: commenters note the de-Google manifesto sits on a site so buried in ads it became a live exhibit of the enshittification it protested.