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.

  • koper@feddit.nl
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    1 day 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.