Will they ever stop creating new services only to shut them down a few years later?
No wonder people don't trust them anymore.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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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.
Also will sell your private data to get rich
Every private company does that, it's not that if you avoid Google you're free of it.
Unfortunately not everyone cares that much about privacy but definitely everyone cares about having a service that's reliable in the long run, hence the "not anymore".
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.
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.
Fuck. I have a domain and workspace account associated with that domain through Google.
Goddammit.
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 moved to cloudflare. Not sure if you're looking for anything specific, but they're fairly popular amongst self hosted crowds.
I don't use them myself as they don't support the TLD I need, but I have heard good things about porkbun
You have got to be kidding. I just migrated several domains over to Google...
"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...
I'm glad I transferred over to cloudflare last renewal
I just a month ago moved a domain to google domains from namecheap (and regestered my own), because namecheeps's user interface is awful by comparison. I am registering a domain, not as a keepsake, but to use it, why is DNS hidden away??? And more importantly, we needed to set up SVR records with a custom host, supported by DNS, needed my us, missing field in namecheap UI.
FML guess it's time to transfer to CloudFlare
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”.
Crap. Their API for dynamic dns was nice.
Any suggestions for registrars which allow Dynamic DNS via an API?
Cloudflare has everything you could need to simplify dynamic DNS. The free plans actually cover most of my personal usage and of course paid version for anything else.
The selection of TLDs Cloudflare supports is weird. I checked them out earlier, and they list .dev as “coming soon” even though it was made publicly available in 2019. This makes Cloudflare a non-option for me as I have a handful of .dev domains I would need to transfer somewhere.
Oh. That sucks. I had a few non supported TLDs a few years ago and was happy to find them supported recently. I moved everything from Google to cloudflare last year. Maybe you can ping them @[email protected] on lemmy to check if they have an ETA for .dev. I just asked them that same question so will update you if they answer.
Google has become the "Popeyes Cheddar Biscuit Butterfly Shrimp" of the internet.
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀 always was
I was going to opine about how "this is the problem with centralized cloud-based providers, at the drop of a hat they can be acquired and suddenly your content is owned by a company you wanted nothing to do with," but then again, you chose Google as your domain provider. I think that's your fault.
I'd usually say the solution is to self host whenever a cloud provider has a shitshow like this, but in this case that's not viable unless you want to go all the way up to becoming your own domain registrar or making your own top-level domain. Symptom that maybe the domain name system is broken, maybe we should campaign for it to be opened up for anyone to register their own domain, or least have a reputable co-op or community-owned domain registrar (maybe the open source/fediverse community can pool our funds to set up a nonprofit publicly owned registrar).
Remember that the fediverse entirely runs on the domain name system as the domain of the instance is used to identify it, and all the security measures relating to inter-instance data sharing is relying on the security of the domains.