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The complaint is that I used to be able to see events sent via Gmail in my Google Calendar without agreeing to Google using that data for "improving the services for everyone" and sharing that data with 3rd parties.

Since today it seems that's no longer a choice.

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"I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."

Remember don't be evil? Those were the days.

Idk why this is so hard for people to get

I don't either. The problem isn't that opting-out is available or not, but rather there's no granularity. You simply don't need to do 90% of this other shit in order to get feature X to work.

For example, the weather widget on Android requires Chrome to have location access. Chrome, the web browser. For... a weather widget.

Sorry, no you don't require that. That is a choice on Google's part. Number 1, why does Weather rely on Chrome? That's a choice, and a stupid one. Number 2, why do I need location at all for Weather? Why can I not manually input my City/ZIP?

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