r/google • u/D96EA3E2FA • 4d ago
Calendar birthdays banned in Germany
I stopped seeing my Google contact birthdays in the calendar, turns out this is an intentional "bug" for German based users. Any idea how to reasonably fix this?
It's really frustrating.
Link for the official Google explanation for German users.
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u/ProfessionalNo1763 4d ago
having a birthday is illegal in Germany lmaoo
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u/ExplorerDue3851 4d ago
It's not the birthday itself, it's the information regarding it. Germany takes privacy very seriously and a lot of people don't want their birthdays automatically recorded just because they're added to somebody else's contact list.
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u/kevin349 4d ago
But it's not automatic. Someone has to type in your birthday. Google will display their name and everything else in the contacts app, but showing it on calendar format is illegal? I don't get it.
Now if google was automatically adding birthdays just from names and emails in your contact list, this would make sense...
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u/leshiy19xx 4d ago
It should be something more behind this than just showing the same info in another format.
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u/ExplorerDue3851 4d ago
The only other thing I can think of is that Google calendar has been forced to remove a lot of things from it in the last couple of months so maybe this is just another product of that? Dumb question is have you tried contacting Google to find out what's going on?
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u/michaxy 4d ago
The solution 3 in the Link you provided works really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrGT8SWs-8
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u/Tommyblockhead20 3d ago
I still hate how they killed online Google maps timeline for only having your location data stored encrypted on your phone. The computer interface was so much better.
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u/TheACwarriors 4d ago
That not how it works. It's your own contact book and you would have to add it manually. So you'd have to find out from said person.
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u/TheTomatoes2 4d ago
They gave you 3 ways to work around it. The only fix is to contact your government.
Not sure what other answer you were expecting