Do/Did you have Google+ ?
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Victor Odhner <
vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
>> If you delete a birthday in contacts, it will not appear in your calendar.
>
> Nope. You can add your birthday in Google, and you can change it, but once
> you add your birthday they’re going to have a birthday for you. I thought of
> entering February 29th, but oh well . . .
>
> The good news is you can turn off their birthdays calendar. Past discussions
> I found indicated that for a while they cluttered your calendar with all the
> birthdays they had for anybody they’d ever seen you connect with.
>
> Since I don’t use my Gmail box, I never had to experience that. :)
>
> They have matured a bit in this area, exposing all the contacts in one
> place: google.com/contacts
>
>
> ______________
>
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 14:10:50, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>
> Check your contacts, it is probably there. If you delete a birthday in
> contacts, it will not appear in your calendar.
>
> if you entered the birthday manually in your calendar, you should be able to
> delete it.
>
> I am not sure how you have your Google account/calendar set up. I use Google
> Apps, so I can have my own domain for gmail, so I am the administrator for
> my calendars.
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Google has kind of merged much of its backend data. So if any Google
>> services have that information they all do.
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2016 1:26 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, so one of the windmills that I like to tilt is limiting how much
>>> Google knows about me. :)
>>>
>>> I do use Google Calendar. I had the “Birthdays” checkbox enabled, and it
>>> wished me a happy birthday. I spun through my busy calendar to see how many
>>> birthdays are listed, and it’s a tiny handful, I think four people besides
>>> myself.
>>>
>>> My birthday is on a busy day, so I tried to delete my birthday. Cawn’t be
>>> done. I would have to contact the Calendar Administrator, they say. But it
>>> doesn’t say who the administrator is for the birthday calendar.
>>>
>>> It’s OK, I have simply disabled the Birthday Calendar, which will not be
>>> missed. But I’m curious who that mysterious administrator is.
>>>
>>> I guess the real answer is, If I gave Google my birthday, where did I do
>>> that?
>>>
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