So Google has started integrating sales into your phone’s photo editor, and there are a lot of angry people who have essentially lost the ability to sort or edit photos in their phones.
But computers really ARE stupid, which is why I am convinced such a thing as “AI consciousness” can never happen, btw, no matter what fake AI religion the sniveling Silicon Valley elites try to sell you. Computers only ever “know” what a human being has told them.
Yeah, I pretty quickly found out how “Google Lens” got on at least this phone here. It attached itself as a Trojan horse through another app called “PlantSnap”, which had been recently installed, that is supposed to help you identify a plant you’re looking at (might be useful to botanists and gardeners), so there was overlap in function. I uninstalled “PlantSnap”, and voila, that BROKE “Google Lens” in the regular photo gallery/editor, making it throw an error message.
However, restarting the phone hoping to get rid of the ghost of the “Google Lens” button did not actually remove said broken button from the regular photo editor. Instead, “Google Lens” reconstituted itself from the uninstalled, but apparently not deleted, old code from the app that had snuck it on in the first place. Like the old cliched robot that rebuilds itself from its own exploded parts on the floor.
I strongly suspect there are other apps that are likewise Trojan horses for “Google Lens”, so if you don’t have “PlantSnap”, I can’t tell you what other apps to get rid of on your phone, or how to clean out their dead body code parts before you restart your phone, which is when “Google Lens” apparently reconstitutes itself. (That is my next step.)
The BIG PROBLEM with the arrogant Google DECEPTIVE PRACTICES is that “Google Lens” INTERFERES WITH PHOTO EDITING. Instead of letting one edit, it shoves ads in your face for whatever it is you have photographed. It then offers you fake editing (cropping), but it doesn’t actually edit. It’s just to zoom itself in, in order to SELL to you “better”. The DECEPTIVE part is that this new button in your photo gallery/editor looks almost exactly like the former “edit” button. JUST DON’T EVER CLICK IT.
Click another button, probably the one that looks like a box of criss-crossed arrows, and find your way to the REAL EDITOR.
My next step is to USB-tether the phone to the computer to fish around for the robot body parts to delete entirely, so “Google Lens” can not reconstitute itself again.
