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Funnily enough, my new ulefone allowed me to at least completely disable that crap. First one where that is possible. Even the shitty swipe right and you get Google's forced news app, which you could "disable" so that it would show a shitty screen with "please enable Google News!", can be completely disabled. First time in like 10 years on a non custom ROM that I could do this.
Wha Google is enforcing for a lot of these things, including Gemini, is that you are only allowed to disable direct interaction from the user with the service. So in the case of Gemini, it’s still running in the background and sending out your data to Google and its advertising partners. You just turned off your ability to interact with it yourself.