They inform you that they have updated their terms of service and
- They summarize the changes using language that is incomprehensible and vague
- 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.
Mistral said its in here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32011L0083
Tldr.
This is illegal in eu.
Marge: “By reading this letter out loud, you agree not to sue us… hmmmm.”
add this to the consumer rights wiki, if it isn’t already :D
Another great reason to not have a google account.
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 :-)
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.
There’s a simple solution to this issue: Delete your Google account, or even better, don’t create a Google account to begin with!
