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Google killing their domains service was the last straw for me. I started moving all of my stuff off of Google since then.

• nomel 1y ago
  I'm still shocked that my google voice number still functions after all these years. It makes me assume it's main purpose is to actually be an honeypot of some sort, maybe for spam call detection.
  • mrj 1y ago
    Shhh don't remind them
  • throwyawayyyy 1y ago
    Pretty sure you can thank the FCC for that :)
  • joshstrange 1y ago
    Because IIRC it’s essentially completely run by another company (I want to say Bandwidth?) and, again my memories might be fuzzy, originally came from an acquisition of a company called Grand Central. My guess is it just keeps chugging along with little maintenance needed by Google itself. The UI hasn’t changed in a while from what I’ve seen.
    • deleted 1y ago
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  • kevin_thibedeau 1y ago
    Mass surveillance pipeline to the successor of room 641A.
  • hnfong 1y ago
    Another shocking story to share. I have a tiny service built on top of Google App Engine that (only) I use personally. I made it 15+ years ago, and the last time I deployed changes was 10+ years ago. It's still running. I have no idea why.
    • coryrc 1y ago
      It's the most enterprise-y and legacy thing Google sells.