They inform you that they have updated their terms of service and

1. They summarize the changes using language that is incomprehensible and vague
2. They require a login for you to read the new terms

There's just no end to their bullshit 🤣

@mods: Just wanted to vent. Delete if you find the post inappropriate.

Another great reason to not have a google account.

add this to the consumer rights wiki, if it isn't already :D

It's all nonsense anyway. They're documents that veil and distract from material-reality. Like privacy-policies. Software-companies all have privacy-policies that detail their pursuit to strip you of privacy, but because they have a privacy-policy they point to it incessantly to claim:
a) they care about [their] privacy;
b) they have a privacy-policy.
It's even in the name: privacy-policy. Ergo privacy.

Users should be quoting their privacy-policies to mock how they abuse their software to surveil users. Same for terms-of-use documents.

I had the displeasure of reading one of Facebook's documents. It's juvenile how they rename terms to sound less insidious. The tracking-pixel is no longer a tracking-pixel: it's just pixel technology and Facebook wants to highlight their use of pixel-technology to improve your "experience" without ever defining what a user's experience is supposed to be anyway.

Useless noise to hide and distract with. It's documentation that attempts to retroactively legitimize their abuses.

Exactly! I live a Google free life in 5 years and getting on well. I was gettin on well before the Google days so i tjink we should all boycot this enshitification machine and take back what belongs to us, not to them. They have stollen it from us ... and i'm not left leaning ...

What is amazing is that all my discourse is starting to bear its fruits ... my 18 yr old son deleted his social accounts and got me to install GOS. And that is a big thing as only two years ago he yhought his dad was mentalky instable :-)

There's a simple solution to this issue: Delete your Google account, or even better, don't create a Google account to begin with!

Marge: "By reading this letter out loud, you agree not to sue us... hmmmm."

Mistral said its in here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32011L0083

Tldr.

This is illegal in eu.

Nintendo did something similar. They added to their privacy policy basically saying you grant permission to them monitoring chats, video, and audio through the switch (does switch even have a camera? I can't remember). They say if you disagree you can login and delete your account. Catch is that when you log in, you can't go to delete your account until you agree to the terms. And if you don't acknowledge by the given deadline, you're automatically agreeing to them.

I contacted their privacy email and they basically said I had to agree first before I could delete my account. Literally impossible to deny the terms.

I can keep ranting but I think I've made my point. They all suck.

i havent thought of the EU as "pro-privacy" since chat control 1.0 . especially not nowadays with their age verification app, eID, and other BS they are introducing. the british online safety act will be here before 2028 im calling it.

Recently been switching almost all of my stuff away from Google. Gmail -> TutaMail, Android -> GrapheneOS, Youtube -> Odysee, etc etc, and my life has never been better! These alternative services work better than the official ones ever did, and I get to have the extra reassurance that my data isnt being sold out to every corpo or government entity that asks.

Google and others regularly pay growing fines to EU over breaking laws. Still data of european citizens is valuable enough that they earn more with fines than they would following law