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Re:Gemini CLI by nojito on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:53PM (#44379410)
>If you use this, all of your code data will be sent to Google.

Not if you pay for it.

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Re:Gemini CLI by reaperducer on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:57PM (#44379465)
>If you use this, all of your code data will be sent to Google.

Not if you pay for it.

Today.

In six months, a "Terms of Service Update" e-mail will go out to an address that is not monitored by anyone.

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Re:Gemini CLI by mpalmer on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:58PM (#44381284)
This sort of facile cynicism doesn't contribute anything useful. Anyone can predict a catastrophe.
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Re:Gemini CLI by reaperducer on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @04:20PM (#44381473)
It would only be cynicism if it didn't happen all the time with seemingly every tech company, major and minor.

This is just how things are these days. The track record of Google, and most of the rest of the industry, does not inspire confidence.

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Re:Gemini CLI by nojito on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @01:25PM (#44379773)
Sure but then you can stop paying.

There's also zero chance they will risk paying customers by changing this policy.

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