Ask HN: Anyone tired of Googl just punting any products of theirs at any time?

by lakotasapa on 10/12/2023, 10:08:06 PM with 8 comments
It pains me so much to build up content then to have them.just shit it down or like domains drop kick it to Squarespace? It's so hard to commit when they seem to kill off projects that doesn't garnish a billion users. I finally got my in-laws to use Googl+ then bam! Closed. So utterly disappointing to no end.

  • by jjgreen on 10/12/2023, 11:09:50 PM

    They've been doing it forever: https://killedbygoogle.com/

  • by poetril on 10/14/2023, 9:17:45 PM

    Last year I finally made the push to de-google as much as possible. I dropped gmail/google calendar in exchange for ProtonMail. Replaced google photos/drive with Backblaze (there is a manual step now). Moved all my domains from Google Domains to Cloudflare (thankfully). The only tether I still have to Google is my YouTube account. Other than that I can say my life has been entirely de-coupled from Google. I simply do not trust Google anymore. Between their history of randomly killing projects and awful consumer support its just not worth it.

  • by CM30 on 10/14/2023, 12:19:41 PM

    Yeah, I am. And based on how things like the Google Graveyard have become a meme, and how people are generally very skeptical of using new products from Alphabet due to the chance of a quick shut down, it seems a lot of others are too.

    Heck, about half the reason people avoided Stadia was because they realised the service would shut down and leave them high and dry.

  • by 8b16380d on 10/12/2023, 11:27:17 PM

    A tale as old as time. Self host your content if you can, or have backups of your content. The pain of self-hosting the majority of one's data is less and less as the years tick by. As I get older, this becomes more apparent. Imagine the state of things in 30 years. What services will still be around? Hopefully most, but that's not a guarantee.

  • by PaulHoule on 10/12/2023, 10:27:04 PM

    Just say no is what I say to Google products.