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Re: Google nag to turn Discover on

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:08:12 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
> 
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > VanguardLH wrote:
> > 
> >> Since your phone likely connects to your Google account, go to
> >> google.com (and signin), click your account picture, More settings, and
> >> then Other settings.  Disable "Show Discover on home page."
> > 
> > I don't have such a setting under Other Settings, neither in a web 
> > browser nor in the Google app, and entering it in the settings search 
> > box didn't find it. The web browser version doesn't even have 
> > Discover under Other Settings (or anywhere else that I could readily 
> > see). Under Other Settings in the app, Discover (which, as I said, is 
> > turned off) there is an explanation "You'll see stories related to 
> > your interest on the home tab of the app."
> 
> In a web browser:
> - Visit google.com.  
> - Login.  
> - Click on the user icon (top right corner of web page).  
> - In the popup dialog, click on "More settings" (lower left corner of 
>   dialog).  
> - In the left pane, click on "Other settings".  
> - Under the Desktop section, disable the "Show Discover on home page".  
> 
> I don't see how you could have a different web page than anyone else
> that logs into their Google account to review settings.  You did login,
> right to then view your Google account settings, right?

Because you took the trouble to post and attempt to help, I'm 
following up. But I think this subthread is probably obsolete, for 
reasons given in my article dated "Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:20:45 -0700" 
in this thread.

https://brownmath.com/screenshot.jpg

I was already logged in; I had a "sign out" option when I first 
clicked the S-in-a circle at upper right, but no login prompt. I then 
clicked "More settings" followed by "Other settings", and the above 
image was the result.

> After logging in, and clicking on the account icon, I see:
> https://imgur.com/a/FzoapeI
> 
> After clicking on More settings, I see:
> https://imgur.com/a/rEJ5PfN
> 
> I only mention the server-side account settings since tis possible the
> Google app is connecting to your Google account from your phone.  Do you
> have a Google account defined on your phone?  Likely yes.  On the phone,
> look under Accounts to see which ones you have defined.
> 
> While Android apps may connect using only the app, some apps will still
> fallback to using the default web browser.  On your phone, which web
> browser is the default one?  Regardless of how you think or wish the
> bank and library apps to behave, have you contacted your bank and
> library to check they NEVER fallback to a web browser.  Just because the
> window doesn't look like a web browser doesn't mean it isn't one.  Lots
> of web-centric apps want you to believe all their screens are presented
> by the apps, not using a web browser as a helper app.  

Yes, but we know Google Messages doesn't use a web browser -- we do 
know that, right? -- and nor does Google Nest. Those are two where I 
remember recently being thrown into the Discover nag screen.

But all of this is probably beside the point; please see my other 
response to you yesterday in  this thread, datelined "Fri, 21 Mar 
2025 11:20:45 -0700".

Since making the changes described in that article, I haven't seen 
the Discover nag screen again, and previously it was several times a 
day.

> Alas, the normal contacts at the bank and library are ignorants. 

Yes, I've observed that when attempting to report a programming 
problem. The most recent was that bill pay refuses to schedule an ACH  
payment for a future date if your available balance now is less than 
the payment amount. The reply had the gall to call that misfeature an 
"enhancement".

-- 
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

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Google nag to turn Discover on Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-20 11:19 -0700
  Re: Google nag to turn Discover on VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 14:09 -0500
    Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-21 03:54 +0000
      Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-21 05:42 +0000
    Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-21 11:28 -0700
      Re: Google nag to turn Discover on VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-21 18:08 -0500
        Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-23 16:13 -0700
          Re: Google nag to turn Discover on VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-23 19:08 -0500
            Re: Google nag to turn Discover on AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-03-24 05:45 +0000
            Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-25 10:12 -0700
              Re: Google nag to turn Discover on VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-25 19:49 -0500
                Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-26 02:00 +0000
            Re: Google nag to turn Discover on (solution: Disable the Google app) Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-25 10:39 -0700
              Re: Google nag to turn Discover on (solution: Disable the Google app) AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-03-25 20:00 +0000
                Re: Google nag to turn Discover on (solution: Disable the Google   app) Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-26 08:31 -0700
  Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-03-21 11:20 -0700
    Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-21 19:09 +0000
      Re: Google nag to turn Discover on Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-21 21:41 +0000
    Re: Google nag to turn Discover on "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-25 20:11 +0100

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