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.
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.
Mistral said its in here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32011L0083
Tldr.
This is illegal in eu.
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
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.
There’s a simple solution to this issue: Delete your Google account, or even better, don’t create a Google account to begin with!
