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Google Domains to shut down (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I'm still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.

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[–] 50 points 3 years ago (13 children)

Seriously. They have been sending this message out for more than a decade now. Every new Google product or service that is any good will be shut down at short notice just when people start getting used to it. Only the search engine and Gmail endure.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    People think Google is in the business of providing services. They aren't. They're in the business of data collection and their services exist to facilitate that. Useful data dries up, service shuts down, every time. It sounds harsh but people who still use Google services are just setting themselves up to get fucked over.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Google is in whatever business they decide to be, and saying that they're expected to leave abruptly because the well dried up is not an acceptable answer. Ultimately it just tarnishes the brand and dooms whatever new things they try to venture into. Stadia never got off the ground for this very reason.

    Google's not going to be able to collect a lot of data if no one trusts them to run a service for more than a couple years. Hell, can I even trust them to keep Chromium going at this point!? Surely they won't let that waterfall of data dry up...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Nah man, the future belongs to the people most capable of providing tools, advice and knowledge to create further data, utility, infrastructure, etc, always has been.

    Google search engine was just one piece of the puzzle.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    They did kill it for me. I was grandfathered into the G Suite software because I signed up back when it was free. Last year they turned around and said "we know we told you that, as an early adopter, you could have this forever; but now we're kicking you out unless you start paying."

    And then they killed IMAP access (without oauth) moments later. Fortunately I was fast enough to set up my own mail server and copy my family's emails, photos, documents, etc. out of Google. I haven't trusted them since.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I'm actually quite pleased with what I've ended up with now. One of the features of the Postfix / Dovecot server I'm running now is that I have recipient delimiters - for example, if my email is hiding@aussie.zone, I can sign up for Mastodon with hiding+mastodon@aussie.zone, and everything they send me will be automatically filed into the Mastodon folder in my account. Additionally, I know exactly who is selling my data this way. It's a great system and avoids the unfortunate predicament you currently find yourself in!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yeah nah that's just the places like YouTube, that they can throw the most advertising at, the issue is that they're not muscling into any other avenues for income, e.g. Google Cloud, YouTube Music, Google Music Studios etc, shared specialised platform for music production and computing hardware, with more exclusive use of Golang tools etc, Vs AWS, a general all purpose solution.

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