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Google Gemini links advanced features and chat history access to an activity setting that shares user data for AI model training

Users note OpenAI and Anthropic provide equivalents without this requirement

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OPKarthik Narasimhan#599Karthik Narasimhan@KARTHIK_R_N

Why do all the interesting features in Gemini require providing data to train the models? OpenAI/Anthropic don't require this. Is there a workaround?

2:24 PM · May 21, 2026 View on X
REPLYSiva Reddy#370Siva Reddy@SIVAREDDYG

I couldn't get around it. I turned my data sharing off, which also meant I can no longer access my own chats.

Only way is to use enterprises Gmail account. But then you can't use Chrome's Gemini feature (right panel in Chrome) if that is your main chrome profile.

So I switched to Atlas, the only browser that has all the things I need. Chrome multi-profiles in the order I want, and codex in the right panel.

Karthik NarasimhanKarthik Narasimhan@karthik_r_n

Why do all the interesting features in Gemini require providing data to train the models? OpenAI/Anthropic don't require this. Is there a workaround?

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