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I don't want to click far enough into the signup to get to an actual contract, but I'd be extremely surprised if it didn't have an arbitration clause as requirement.

For some things you can opt out of arbitration, but not for others.

The online fi related contract (which I obviously not the actual carrier contract) I found is: https://fi.google.com/about/device-protection-terms/ which indeed has a mandatory arbitration clause.

It's high time that the arbitration act gets dramatically scaled back. I don't have problems with reasonably sized companies agreeing to arbitration in contracts with each other, but it doesn't work for end users and employees.



Arbitration is void in Europe. That's 500 million people who can sue them.

However, given that it takes years for any case to settle, if you could even find how to start the process in the first place, that ain't happening.


Isn't project fi exclusively a US thing? Why wouldn't google just get it thrown out due to lack of jurisdiction when sued in Europe?


Don't know about Fi. I am thinking of the other products that Google sells, none of which has any support.




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