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.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days 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.