Some users are angry that some events have been removed.

Summary

Google Calendar users are upset after noticing that events like Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage were removed from default settings.

Google confirmed the change, stating that maintaining a manually curated list of cultural observances worldwide was “not scalable or sustainable.”

Instead, Google has reverted to only displaying public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com, with users now responsible for adding other events manually.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
    832·
    17 hours ago

    Oh no, they can track hundreds of millions of devices, profile and serve ads to them instantly, but calendars… Grrr!

    /s

  • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
    36·
    16 hours ago

    Ultimately Hitler’s Birthday will somehow become ‘sustainable’ for these corporate bootlickers.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    15 hours ago

    But they can put a new logo doodle for a different event every day of the year, over multiple years?

  • iamthewalrus@lemmy.world
    96·
    16 hours ago

    Unpopular opinion maybe, but I’m ok with this. It’s less clutter if all you want is to see public holidays, and it’s easy enough to install calendars that show other events.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      9 hours ago

      Unpopular opinion maybe, but I’m ok with this. It’s less clutter if all you want is to see public holidays, and it’s easy enough to install calendars that show other events.

      Well it’s not unpopular so to speak… had they never included them that would be one thing… Hell had they removed them 2 years ago that would have been a fine decision. On the other hand removing them right now… it’s quite blatently obvious the motivation isn’t decluttering. It’s about making sure the racists in power don’t have to look at anything that might make them unhappy.

    • koper@feddit.nl
      271·
      16 hours ago

      Be that as it may, the real motivation for this change likely has nothing to with “less clutter” and more with pandering to the MAGA crowd.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      53·
      16 hours ago

      Same here. I’ve never been fond of the proliferation of these “think about <minority> for a moment!” holidays. They’re the main thing that comes to mind when I think of what’s “performative.”