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We are discontinuing the dark web report
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- 9dev 10mo agoAnother one for the graveyard!
- moebrowne 10mo agohttps://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- sunaookami 10mo agoIs this site still updated? Last entries are from 2024, no way Google didn't kill something this year.
- mungoman2 10mo agoI hear the team running the site was laid off.
- alex1138 10mo agoThe people responsible for sacking the people who have been sacked have since been sacked
- extraduder_ire 10mo agoLooks like it's been updated since you posted this. I know it's still active because I see someone with that handle posting on bluesky regularly.
- eimrine 10mo agoWhy was it opened? Is it that dark web where asassination markets and similar stuff happens?
- stuaxo 10mo agoThat market was fake, the report on it is really interesting (but the people submitting to it were real).
- pluto_modadic 10mo agohuh. did their source / login get burned?
- 7bit 10mo ago> While the report offered general information, feedback showed that it didn't provide helpful next steps. Translation: We don’t actually want to keep spending time, money, and resources on this.
- jajuuka 10mo agoThat's my read. That it's not a revenue generator and taking server resources that could go to something that is making them money. They've at least added more things to Google One over the past year which softens the blow.
- ikiris 10mo agoDoubtful. The issue is probably the service needs to be moved to some framework that isn't deprecated and being turned off, and no one can justify side projects these days that don't sell an AI product.
- nospice 10mo agoThat's not how it reads to me. I think it's more that they feel they can't share enough information to make it useful without compromising their operating methods. Which is an eternal struggle with stuff like that: the bad guys are reading too.
- eitally 10mo agoNo, not really. The way this worked is that if they detected personal information on a "dark web" (per their definition -- I have no idea what this actually meant) site, they would show you a report that told you which PII was listed, and it was usually things like your fname/lname, address, phone or location. The problem is that it wasn't actionable [because it was the dark web], unlike their current personal data privacy features and data removal tool. This is one where I don't blame them for killing it because "it" wasn't really even a product -- it was just a very basic, not useful at all, report.
- prepend 10mo agoI found the info not actionable because it wouldn’t say what actual values were posted. I have a common name Gmail account. The password is rather complex and I would be surprised if it leaks as only I and Google know it. However, I would get reports that it’s on the dark web with blanked out password values. So I never knew if they actually compromised or just something else. They would also report when some random site that used my Gmail address as user id was on the darknet that I don’t care about. I don’t care if my fidofido account is leaked. I never use it and if I did, then I would reset. I think if the data were useful Google would have kept this up. I bet they keep tracking though, just keep the reports internal.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoI never got the Google dark web reports, but my credit card used to send me reports constantly saying that my email address was 'found on the darkweb.' Okay, that's not useful information. If it showed me if there were associated passwords, that might be helpful, but just saying my address was found on the darkweb is meaningless. My email address is public information. The worst part is, it was an email address I hadn't used in about 10 years, and they wouldn't let me take it out of the report.
- deepsun 10mo agoWell you could change the email address you use for the financial services only, and keep it secret. Then it would be harder to impersonate you.
- placatedmayhem 10mo agoOr, use a service that lets you generate an address for each business you deal with or use case you have so you can treat them as disposable. After chasing down spammers and companies selling my info, including my email, I found this was easier to keep up with and is more effective. Spam me once or sell it to another company, and I burn that address, replacing it with the original company if I really need them to keep in contact.
- xxmarkuski 10mo agoI set it up for an old Google account that has been breached. It did a relatively good job, but HIBP has more data in my experience, albeit it mainly looks at emails, whereas Google's report can do lookups by full name, address, and phone number. I think it was useful, but did not get enough love to be like a second HIBP.
- arccy 10mo agodid anyone ever get a report? i never got anything at all...
- tonytamps 10mo agoalways with 2 days of a HIBP email
- breppp 10mo agoyes, it was a cool feature showing which of your data has leaked and in what leak I remember email and phone being the major ones. A kind of improved haveibeenpwned
- lavezzi 10mo agoyes, but recent alerts don't seem to be reporting properly, which now makes sense given the news.
- atomic128 10mo agoHTTP response dumps from the Tor dark web: https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/
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- MinimalAction 10mo agoWhile this was a free service and thus Google is under no obligation to continue offering this service, this is still quite sad. They could have atleast bundled it for some tier of Google One paid subscription.
- therein 10mo agoIt was as inactionable and useless as the ones that ID.me or whatever sends. Also calling it Dark Web report always felt super insincere. It had nothing to do with the "dark web", that just served a way to make it sound cooler and more hackery. Aren't we talking about something that's equivalent to HaveIBeenPwned?
- bflesch 10mo agoCan one of the good souls at google please donate the data to archive.org?
- martythemaniak 10mo agoIs there a product that will do go through the vast expanse of accounts you have and either delete them or mass-change their passwords? I basically I wish to shrink my online presence as much as possible, but doing it manually would mean finding all the various accounts I have, logging in, trying to close, etc. Seems like good fit for an LLM browser agent.
- rolph 10mo agowhenever you conceive of a weapon/tool to use in a time of struggle, make preparation for the possibility it may be siezed and directed against you. such a product must be crafted to mitigate its own abuse, as well as the original problem.
- rolph 10mo agodark web reports in general, seem to be a funnel for paid "security" and monitoring services, VPNs AV suites, typically you review your passwords for strength and redundancy, then you are redirected to buy some service, that ultimately looks like a data hoover, and put everything in a cloud scheme. now we have AI and FOMO to hook and reel in, seemingly more effective than darkweb boogeymen for adoption and revenue.
- levocardia 10mo agoI might be misremembering this but FWICR on Chrome it would link your saved passwords with the dark web report, and automatically recommend you change any account that had the same password as the "pwned" account found in the dark net. Was pretty useful.
- permo-w 10mo agoApple has this feature on iOS. no idea where they source the info from, but in your keychain it will say something like "this password has appeared in a data leak"
- mholt 10mo agoDiscover (Card/Bank) also announced recently that they are stopping their dark web report service. I wonder if they just used Google, or if it's a coincidence...
- Mistletoe 10mo agoThe email about this went to my spam folder on Gmail. Ok, come on Google.
- password-app 10mo agoGoogle discontinuing this is unfortunate timing given the recent breach surge (700Credit, SoundCloud, LinkedIn leak). Alternatives: haveibeenpwned.com (free), 1Password Watchtower, Bitwarden breach reports. The harder part isn't knowing about breaches—it's actually rotating passwords afterward. Most people know they should but don't because it's tedious. Automated rotation tools are emerging but need careful security architecture (local-only, zero-knowledge) to avoid creating new attack vectors.
- kittikitti 10mo agoThe reason their data got leaked was because they were using Google services. The only actionable thing people could do was delete their Google accounts. This move is to hide the inherent security holes in using their products.