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This is the bookmarks you save in your Google account, at https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ https://www.google.com/bookmarks/. It's not your web browser's bookm
by onion2k 5y ago
This is the bookmarks you save in your Google account, at https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ https://www.google.com/bookmarks/. It's not your web browser's bookmarks. It doesn't even sync with your Chrome bookmarks when you're logged in to Chrome.
It does seem like an odd product to kill off. It's one of those things that takes very little dev resources, and it's probably really useful to the few people who actually use it. Another example of Google's odd product decisions I guess.
- spankalee 5y agoYou never know about these very old products. It might be built on Python 2 or something that the company is trying to turn down across the fleet. There may be no one left at the company who knows how the app is built, etc.
- jonas21 5y agoAlso, keeping a service running exposes you to liability in the event of a data breach or GDPR violation. As I understand it, even if a tiny service that nobody cares about is found to violate the GDPR, the company can be fined up to 4% of its global revenue, which for Google would be quite a lot of money.