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Google has faced ongoing scrutiny related to data privacy, competition, and its dominant position in the market.{{Citation needed}} The company has been the subject of various legal and regulatory challenges, particularly concerning antitrust issues, the use of personal data, and its impact on consumer choice.{{Citation needed}} | Google has faced ongoing scrutiny related to data privacy, competition, and its dominant position in the market.{{Citation needed}} The company has been the subject of various legal and regulatory challenges, particularly concerning antitrust issues, the use of personal data, and its impact on consumer choice.{{Citation needed}} | ||
=== Google Play Music shutdown === | |||
[[wikipedia:Google_Play_Music|Google Play Music]] was a service that allowed you to purchase music, and listen to it through streaming or downloading locally on your computer, alternatively you could pay for a subscription to listen to all music available through streaming.<ref name=":0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music</ref> It was publicly launched on the 16th November 2011<ref name=":0" /> and later shutdown in December 2020.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644/google-play-music-music-play-store-music-manager-are-going-away-%E2%80%93-everything-you-need-to-know?hl=en</ref> Google Play Music further allowed users to upload their own songs to listen on all their devices, with a limit of up to 50,000.<ref>https://www.howtogeek.com/288231/how-to-upload-your-music-library-to-google-play-music/</ref> Users were able to purchase songs individually or buy whole albums that they could then download and listen to, or stream through the internet.<ref>https://www.technobezz.com/buy-music-google-play/</ref> | |||
In October 2020, Google announced that they would be shutting down Google Play Music, with it being fully shut down by December.<ref>https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/google-play-music-dead/</ref> This went ahead with a warning to their users to begin migrating to YouTube Music, and that they would be losing access to their bought songs, they further said that users should download their purchased songs before the service would shut down.<ref>https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-will-replace-google-play-music-end-2020/</ref> | |||
After the service shut down, everyone has lost access to all the music they paid for, with no way to download them; Google justified this by transferring all playlists and purchase history to YouTube Music, and only refunding songs that were not directly available.<ref>https://darwinsdata.com/what-happened-to-my-songs-on-google-music/</ref><ref>https://www.makeuseof.com/what-happened-to-google-play-music/</ref> And further, with no guarantee that the songs will stay up, users who purchased songs are no longer able to stream at 320kbps on YouTube Music compared to Google Play Music unless they pay for the monthly subscription.<ref>https://www.techradar.com/news/software/google-music-uk-everything-you-need-to-know-1120176</ref><ref>https://www.noteburner.com/youtube-music-tips/youtube-music-audio-quality.html</ref> If you failed to transfer your music library or download your songs until 24th February 2021, then you lost all access and all data associated with Google Play Music.<ref>https://www.gadgets360.com/how-to/news/google-play-music-data-deleted-february-24-youtube-how-to-transfer-files-playlists-billing-information-2365609</ref> And you cannot download songs from YouTube Music as MP3s, with local downloads requiring an internet connection every 30 days to stay up.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/6313535?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid</ref> | |||
===Google Stadia shutdown=== | ===Google Stadia shutdown=== | ||