Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit.

Blaze@piefed.zip · 8 个月前

Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit.

DeprecatedCompatV2 · 8 个月前

Are you saying that there’s a random gmail account associated with every custom domain google account?

Godnroc@lemmy.world · 8 个月前

Not quite, more that anyone who had a domain registered with Google may now have a Square Space account connected to their gmail address and Google account.

Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit.

Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit.

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