Will they ever stop creating new services only to shut them down a few years later?
No wonder people don’t trust them anymore.
Doesn’t Microsoft do the same (i.e. killing the Windows phones)? It really kills any incentive for me to buy their products. I feel safer actively avoiding them. It used to be you felt safer buying from big names because they were here to stay. Surely enough, companies are but the products aren’t and customers turn into victims.
Yeah MS did kill their phones but that’s nothing like Google launching dozens of new services then killing them after a few years, Google has unfortunately been doing that for quite a long time.
There are zero reasons to trust Google at all, so… I don’t know the “anymore” part…
Not because they shut down services but because they are Google. Part of the five eyes surveillance network, buddies with nsa and all those guys. Also will sell your private data to get rich, that’s their entire business idea.
I’ve always found it hilarious that they give people a web page to put their private searches in, and they do it!
I don’t like Zuckerberg but his opinion about people just randomly uploading anything personal to Facebook and trusting him (he called those people dumb fucks when he was younger)… It is kind of true.
Well they give people a web page to put their private searches in and then they perform a search and amongst peers has historically done it the best. That’s not a minor detail, it’s not particularly realistic to use the modern web without a search engine and they’re not secretive about the business model. That doesn’t make it particularly great, especially for privacy, but people are unlikely to pay for web searching.
Dang!
I have a bunch of domains on Google domains.
Anyone have some good recommendations of places to transfer them?
A good thing about Google Domains is that they support SRS for email forwarding, it’s a pain to find providers that do this correctly…
I don’t use them myself as they don’t support the TLD I need, but I have heard good things about porkbun
I moved to cloudflare. Not sure if you’re looking for anything specific, but they’re fairly popular amongst self hosted crowds.
“Once regulatory approvals are obtained and the transaction closes, you will become a customer of Squarespace, and your** domain will be owned** and, after a transition period, managed by Squarespace.”
Squarespace will own the domains?
As a Google Domains customer, it would have been nice to learn about this from Google…
Another one bites the dust
You have got to be kidding. I just migrated several domains over to Google…
Ugh, that’s so annoying. What’s the point of making great products if you’re eventually just going to shut them down?
Maybe it’s easier for them to sell it instead of maintaining them?
Google has their hands in too many industries
I would imagine it also due to a flaw in how Google works. From my understanding, Google incentivizes adding new features, not supporting things. So, unless you’re on a team that is working on a core product, you won’t get far just maintaining and fixing bugs in a product that is “feature complete”.
Fuck. I have a domain and workspace account associated with that domain through Google.
Goddammit.
Google has become the “Popeyes Cheddar Biscuit Butterfly Shrimp” of the internet.
