This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!
(arstechnica.com)
from leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to technology@lemmy.ml on 29 Sep 2023 04:24
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from leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to technology@lemmy.ml on 29 Sep 2023 04:24
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google is killing off so many products lately we need to do a roundup or we won’t get anything else done today.
YouTube has been slowly consuming all of Google’s media properties, and podcasts completes the trinity along with videos (both amateur and scripted Hollywood content) and music.
This was announced on the official YouTube blog, if there was any question about the responsible party.
In 2024, Google Podcasts will die at 8 years old, if you want to count from the weird Google Search beginnings, but only has had the bare minimum feature set of a podcast service for four years.
If you’ve never heard of this, that’s because it got a very small rollout to only Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
You can throw this shutdown into the pile of “Google price increases” this year.
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This is in relation to YouTube Premium Lite, and not, as this shortened article implies, Google Podcasts.
Thanks for the clarification. Am I the only one that thinks autotldr is almost harmfully bad?
I like it for a quick overview. You just need to be aware that you have to check to full article if you find the summary interesting and really wanna save that information in your brain or do something with it.
I can’t evn
Dead Products (Death Date)
Also dead now:
My company has like 50 of these. Theyre losing support?
Yup, I think the announcement was for “late 2024” so prob around this time next year. They’ll be paperweights, as far as I can tell, there’s no local functionality and the cloud software is getting shutdown
If you’re in the edu sector Google said something about working with them to reimburse the cost, but regular businesses can kick rocks apparently
I swear, these “evil” companies vanquish themselves. How does Google seriously expect anyone to invest any non-zero amount of time + capital into learning and integrating their fly-by-night dilletantic ventures…
Like, real talk G, stop threatening and making good on giving me a good time. Hopefully they will take a page from Brav’s book although I will never trust or use them. Some things just need to die imao
What’s funny is that in the last year Google has de-googlefied my life more than I have.
Android, Gmail, Google Podcasts, and Domains were the remaining services I use of theirs.
Now I guess it’s just Android and Gmail.
Bummed about Google Domains / Site analytics, I really enjoyed how straightforward it was.
That’s how I have to look at it, same with Apple and their nonsense with iCloud being fully open to themselves and “partners”. I said cut the bullshit and maybe I’ll come back and they sort of did and now we can all profit from that (although I still have many valid and serious criticism reserved, but I have to pick my battles)
Learning to rely on Google as little as possible years ago was the best thing that ever happened to me. I learned this lesson/ came to this conclusion after they got rid of Google reader and even home page/ start page. Google reader was the best (still to this day) rss reader ever made. I still haven’t found anything that matches how I had mine set up and its functionality/ usefulness.
The list grows
I got that email about google podcasts being shut down and went and found a FOSS alternative: AntennaPod. Been using it for a few days and does everything I need, free, no ads, no extra crap, and now I don’t have to start using stupid YT music.
AntennaPod is the best out there on Android imo.
Are there any benefits to using AntennaPod over Spotify?
As OC said, free, opensource, no ads. You don’t need a Spotify-Account for that.
If you want to get rid of Spotify even more: Try the app ViMusic. Every Song for free, no ads, etc…
Very interesting! ViMusic seems cool
What’s this about basic email?
That’s the HTML-only Gmail view. Now you can only use the JavaScript enabled version on web.
Thanks!
I’m guessing that was a “better to track and monetize you” decision, on their part. Glad I moved to Proton. If you don’t pay for it, you’re not a customer. I got tired of being Google’s product.