I actually did have to manually disable this from Germany, so it might be a different reason you don't have it?

Dunno! I would have expected Germany and Norway to be the same.

So this effectively means, if you buy a new phone and want to set it up, you'll have to do it tomorrow, because of an arbitrary flow Google created to save their play store percentages...

Is this really the state of AI in 2026?

It takes over your entire browser to center a div... and then fails to do so?

I usually would post it in our dev slack chat and rant for a message or two how many hours were lost "reverse-engineering" bad documentation. But I probably wouldn't post about it on here/BlueSky.

You are assuming: A) That everyone who saw this would go as far as post publicly about it (and not just chuckle / send it their peers privately) and B) Any post about this would reach you/HN and not potentially be lost in the sea of new content.

They are not assuming everyone would do that.

Which is basically what the US also wants.

> I'm glad this happened with this particular non-disabled-organization. Because if this by chance had happened with the other non-disabled-organization that also provides such tools... then I would be out of e-mail, photos, documents, and phone OS.

This... sounds highly concerning

A while ago they changed their TOS from something along the lines of "We will never sell your data" to "Your data is safe"

Feels like I've been hearing "Update X makes Y worse" or "Update X destroys hardware Y" a lot more this year with Windows. Seems like they are fully embracing AI at Microsoft.

Given the horrible stability of Windows this year, it seems like Microsoft went all in on that