Oh cool. I mean, I have this turned off for all users in my gapps domain and I’m not using an admin account here and have no idea how this would even be on my screen but cool, cool cool.
Well let’s click “turn on” and see if it works. I feel like it probably shouldn’t but every day some KPI at the big G depends on little things like “user consent” or “words meaning things” is an adventure so let’s buckle up.
How well does it work though? Let’s find out!
Oh. Well, shoutout to @404mediaco, good to know I can trust them at least.
And my domain settings all say it’s disabled for all users. But there it is.
Cool, cool cool.
It’s easy, all you need to do is open your Gmail settings, scroll past the “smart features” options that are all set to off, find the Data Privacy menu, scroll past the “smart features” options that are all set to off, then go into the Google Workplace smart features menu where the smart features that should all be forced off per domain policy set in the admin panel are turned on because what does “permission” really mean really if you think about it, and turn them off, then choose “done”.
Organizing the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful unless it’s a choice you might make that we don’t like, in that case we’re going to organize that shit five levels deep in the interface and ignore the choice you made and the settings your admin picked and what words mean because our line is going up and fuck your settings that’s why.
Nothing I can see in the admin console even admits that any of this nonsense happened, and ...I mean, what do you even say.
Options force-pushed to the user that override org policy settings? In a way that is completely invisible to an admin? And hidden four layers down in the user settings? What sort of evening-at-the-infosec-improv amateur hour is this?
If an endpoint can override policy invisibly you don't have a perimeter, you have a wishlist. WTF is going on at the big G these days?
Honestly what the hell.
@mhoye so far they've been handing me reasons to LEAVE, so there's that.
but damn do I hate dealing with email hosts.
@mhoye girl, everyday
@cederbs No kidding.
@mhoye why are you opposed to sombody getting their promotion and their bonus payout?
Think of the poor engineer that wil have to fix that mess at one point and will be skipped promotion because "one doesn't fix problem at Google. They invent them".
@mhoye not even a "Beware of the Leopard" sign 
@arj At least that would have been an acknowledgement that it was deliberate or funny or somethiing.
@mhoye another skirmish in the tech War On Consent
@fivetonsflax "oops"
@mhoye wait so it assumed you were talking about some "auto jobs applier bot" when you asked "does this work" with no other context?
@jplebreton Yuuuuup. First question I ever asked it, too.