Another day, another service joins the Google Graveyard.
Google’s Business Profiles had a feature that allowed sole traders and small businesses to quickly and easily set up a simple website.
Sure, it’s not WordPress, but it was a good option for less tech savvy small businesses to get a web presence up quickly and easily.
And, as part of Google’s ongoing enshittification, it’s going: https://support.google.com/business/answer/14368911?hl=en&ref_topic=7032534&sjid=14999411477128650858-AP
“Websites made with Google Business Profiles are basic websites powered by the information on your Business Profile. In March 2024, websites made with Google Business Profiles will be turned off and customers visiting your site will be redirected to your Business Profile instead. The redirect will work until June 10, 2024.”
I really miss “Don’t Be Evil.”
I still use some of their original services, but I’ve become wary of trusting anything they brought online after about 2010.
Don’t worry, they’ll probably be sunsetting gmail in 2025
I still mourn Inbox, it was the best email experience I’ve ever had.
inbox was actually the best web based email frontend I’ve ever used, I miss it greatly, I’ve been using thunderbird since but it’s just not the same
Doubt it, it’s one of their biggest data mining operations.
I can see them making it suck, though.
https://xkcd.com/1361/
This is great, as usual
Please be a joke… I’m unfortunately pretty deep in my current gmail with all kinds of medical, legal, and financial offices it would be a mess for me to lose it
Move.
Now.
Seriously why now.
Better to do now than (most likely) never.
The sooner the better and now new cases are sent to the old email.
If you get your own domain ypu can choose whatever email peovider you want.
Hell. Host it at home.
So that’s the plan and I’m not a stranger to doing basic server stuff. For me personally right now though it just isn’t feasible. I’m not in a space where I can handle extra overhead like that and I’m entrenched in a lot of important communications through my old email that need as little disruption as possible. In about a year I think things will have cooled down enough for me to switch
Same as the other response said, but at least make a backup.
Also, I wouldn’t store all that private information at an ad tech company.
That’s a good point about backups! Doing that now
They sunset “Don’t Be Evil” a while ago.
“Don’t be evil” isn’t meaning that Google won’t be evil, it is a threat to the user. “Be good and obedient, don’t block ads and trackers, it’s healthier for you”