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

Good Guy EU

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

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.

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.

The EU seems like the only major entity actually trying at this point. They deserve a huge thanks in my book.

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

Our EU saviors. Its so disappointing that we need to rely on the EU to force companies to make changes rather than our own governments...

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