My best guess is to drown out the story of them them nuking the Pixel sellers account (which was just reinstated because of the bad press). It was a big remind

My best guess is to drown out the story of them them nuking the Pixel sellers account (which was just reinstated because of the bad press). It was a big reminder to people how much trust they put in Google with their data and how little recourse they really have against a faceless algorithm.