Re: Google nag to turn Discover on

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:09:23 -0500, 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."

Just to add a side note to Vanguard's great researched response, I've never
heard of "Discover". I've never seen it. I didn't even know it existed.
Looking it up... apparently "Discover" is a personalized feed of content
provided by Google based on your past Google activity, including your
searches, browsing history, and app usage. Yikes! I wouldn't want that.
 <https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10001618/#:~:text=Google%20Discover%20is%20just%20a,your%20search%20and%20browsing%20history.>
Digging deeper why I've never heard of Discover even as I've had Android
since, oh, seemingly forever, I found it's in the Google App, also known as
 <com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox>
I have that package on my Android 13 Galaxy so why don't I see "Discover"?
 C:\> adb shell pm list packages com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
      (this lists it)
Luckily for me, it's been long ago "disabled" by me (probably en masse):
 C:\> adb shell pm list packages -d com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
      (this lists it)
I looked to see if it was "stopped" also (in addition to disabled).
 C:\> adb shell "dumpsys package com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox | grep stopped="
The output indicated that the package wasn't installed for "user 0" but it
was installed (& working) for "user 11", so I needed to figure who is who.
 C:\> adb shell am get-current-user
      This reported that I'm user 0 when running adb
Digging deeper, since I have no accounts set up on my phone, apparently I'm
user 0 (even as for most of you, you're NOT user 0, apparently).
Then I have a work profile, which is user 11. So for the work profile, the
Discover functionality exists, but not for the main profile of mine.
This is confusing to me, but I'm trying to figure out WHY I never see
anything about "Discover" and people like Stan do see it.
Since this is getting long, I'll write up separately how to remove it from
both the user 0 profile (user profile) and the work profile (user 11).