Dear Abhijit Pramanik and the Google Team,
Your response claiming that you are “evolving” the plans is unacceptable and evades the real issue: Antigravity is suffering from critical technical bugs and unnotified contract modifications. The 140+ hour lockouts and the anomalous shifting of reset dates (where the timer adds an extra 7 days without the user consuming a single token) are extensively documented by the developer community. This is a system failure, not a feature of your updated structure.
Furthermore, the Google AI Pro subscription was originally and explicitly marketed with a “high, generous quota, refreshed every five hours” for premium models like Gemini 3 Pro, not just for the inferior Gemini Flash model. The silent alteration of your documentation to impose a hidden “weekly limit,” without providing the contractually required 30-day advance notice for material changes, constitutes a deceptive “bait and switch” tactic .
Pretending that the solution to this structural quota failure is to suggest developers top up “AI credits” billed at expensive Vertex API pricing is a coercive practice that completely undermines the flat-rate subscription model we already paid for.
We remind you that these practices directly violate international consumer protection laws, including the FTC’s rules on deceptive material representation, the UK Consumer Rights Act, and the strict Australian Consumer Law. If Google continues to ignore this technical deficiency and clear breach of contract, you will not only guarantee the failure of Antigravity as a professional tool in the market, but you will also expose the company to an imminent class-action lawsuit. We demand the immediate restoration of the five-hour refreshes we have paid for.
To follow up on our previous message, we want to detail the specific United States laws and regulations that Google is violating by suggesting the purchase of additional “AI credits” as the only workaround for a service we are already paying a recurring subscription for.
First, this practice constitutes a direct violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, which strictly prohibits “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” in commerce. Selling a flat-rate subscription by advertising 5-hour quota refreshes, only to subsequently lock users out for days and demand the payment of variable API fees (via credit purchases) to regain basic functionality, undeniably qualifies as a deceptive business practice, a material omission, and a substantial financial injury that consumers cannot reasonably avoid.
Furthermore, under the FTC’s recent enforcement guidance and reports on “Dark Patterns,” the tactic of artificially restricting an already-paid service to coerce the user into making additional purchases (forced upselling) is considered a manipulative and illegal design practice meant to trick and trap consumers. This is compounded by violations of the FTC’s recently amended Negative Option Rule, which strictly prohibits misrepresenting material facts and altering the terms of recurring subscriptions without clear and informed consumer consent.
Finally, rendering the primary purpose of the IDE useless through this hidden limit and demanding extra payments represents a clear material breach of contract under U.S. state commercial laws. We strongly urge you to escalate this serious matter to your legal department before the developer community proceeds with formal complaints to the FTC and class-action litigation.
