Re: Google nag to turn Discover on (solution: Disable the Google app)

On 3/25/25 10:39 AM, Stan Brown wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:08:38 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

I mentioned disabling the Google app in my 2nd reply to you, but that
was 5 hours after you posted your reply to yourself.  I didn't bother
watching the Youtube video.  However, it wasn't clear that you actually
disabled the Google app, only that it was suggested.

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I did disable the Google app, and I'm pretty sure I haven't received a nag to turn on Discover since then. (By "pretty sure" I mean that I can't recall any instance of it popping up. But it's really hard to be certain of _not_ seeing something that I'm not actively looking for.)
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Interestingly, when I opened Chrome, which is my only browser on my Android phone, the lower half of the screen was the beginning of a Discover feed! However, at the upper right of that feed was the three-dot menu icon, and when I tapped it one of the options was "Turn off", which of course I selected. Out of curiosity, I closed the Chrome app and restarted my phone, then started Chrome again. Discover remains off, for now at least.

Since Discover is in the settings of the Google app, not the Chrome app, maybe disabling the Google app meant that Chrome no longer had to that setting?

When I put the Google ecosystem onto this Amazon Fire OS HD10 tablet awhile
 back, Discover was on both the Chrome browser and the Google app. I later
 removed the Google app and Discover still remained on the Chrome browser so
 at least on this setup there appears to be no connection as to Discover
 control.

In any case, Chrome seems to be remembering that I turned off Discover in Chrome. At least for now, it's not nagging me to turn it back on.