Google may let you choose which of its services are linked, thanks to EU

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• ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good Guy EU

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  • TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just wait for some corporate white knight to come here and explain how EU is stopping innovation. Love these guys, I always have a bag of popcorn at the ready.

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• Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty sure the EU has done more for USA privacy on accident than our own government has done in general.

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  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For a lot of rights, looking at the right to repair too. Keep it up over there!

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    • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about the whole usbc apple thing? dont forget about that one

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    • FatTony@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The EU has right to repair?

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  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *BY ACCIDENT

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    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/01_4/barratt16.htm

      both are correct, #dealwithit

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google may be forced by the EU to give you the freedom to choose which services are linked*

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• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an EU law that takes effect on March 6, 2024. As a result of the DMA, in the EU, Google offers you the choice to keep certain Google services linked.

  Gotta love the weaselly language.

  I’m wondering if they try to slither out of actually complying with the law.

  • They say they will unlink whatever “Ad Services” is and everything else. IMO they should unlink customer ad profiles from other service accounts, which I don’t expect them to do.
  • The whole point of the DMA is not just to have Google unlink your Youtube account from your Gmail account, but that they provide the same level of service and integration to outside services as with their own, without prioritizing their own. That means that I should be able to use Google Chrome and Search together to the same degree as Firefox and Search. Execs at Google are on record saying the only point of them developing Chrome is to do stuff that is now against the law in Europe. I wonder if they find a new business model or keep the current, illegal one.

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• whenigrowup356@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’ll do it in a way that’s convenient and doesn’t require 14 clicks through obnoxiously designed popups every single time you use a Google service. Yep, certainly no way this could go wrong.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They just need to put it in the regular account settings and not a single person on the planet will figure out how to get to them and change them.

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• THE_ANON@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man i love EU

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sometimes the EU kicks ass. Other times, it’s the opposite. See EU browser root certs.

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• faerbit@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool. When can I have another location or backup provider on my Android phone?

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  • madis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can already use any backup apps. ADB-based, root-based or simply copying the APKs.

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• ianovic69@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next update - “Google to shut down Chrome in the EU”

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  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Microsoft to stop offering Windows in the EU”

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Couldn’t you always unlink Google services by using different accounts for them?

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