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Makes sense. I didn’t get it from what was posted but I understand now from the replies. Thanks.

I don’t get why it’s a trick either. That’s the catchy headline right? But no word on if the changes apply into the past or it’s just lawyers trying to protect themselves for next time. It’s an email with new TOS and the ability to opt out.

No it’s not good for users and yes it’s a shitty 30 day notice in an email even I didn’t read yet because I’m so irritated with them.

But reading the patron post didn’t tell me how it was a trick and neither did the mastodon link. However the replies were good and helped fill me in on some details I wasn’t aware of yet on the actual breach. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/111531294441702837

Not sure why the down votes on a perfectly acceptable question.

Ha! Absolutely correct and also just to drive the point home, “a few years” means 15 years.

I used to use it for shopping lists, but then one day assistant said it had moved. I couldn’t find it, instructions were unclear so I gave up on shopping lists and keep.

I’ve been burned many times by Google since then, and they’ve taken me from a customer with a lot of Google products and services to only a backup email account and that’s about it.

I was subscribed to paramount+ for Star Trek, and occasionally I’d pause to catch Easter eggs or read something on the screen, get a better look at a ship, etc - but all I could see was a shirtless man selling me old spice. It was actually really frustrating.

Pixel pass is the most recent service they’ve cancelled on me, my movies I bought on Google TV after being moved to YouTube but that service is gone too.

Their assistant devices have slowly gone crazy and barely understand anything and half the features for them have been removed for one reason or another.

Also the transition from the Nest app for my cameras which was amazing to the shitty Google home app which had half the features and didn’t work with all my cameras so I had half on nest and half on Google home.

Also their WiFi app is now also in Google home and it has less features than the original stand alone. So it’s not all free services, it’s things I’ve paid for and been burned over and over again.

I had a lot of their stuff over the years and it’s always great at first until… it’s not.

Your question really made me laugh because I was indeed rambling but the overall point was - I bought Google products, they’ve dismantled and changed things to make it less useful than it was or they have cancelled the product/program entirely. So I’m not buying their products anymore. It’s my opinion but it’s my money and I’m going to choose to spend it elsewhere.

Hope that clears it up.

I was all in for years and each product I’ve been burned, this is the last straw for me. As each thing I own fails or needs replacing, it won’t be Google.

I am done, I looked past a lot of faults because of the overall capabilities of the ecosystem they created and they’ve slowly dismantled it and changed and tweaked everything to be annoying to use.

It’s like they intentionally pick the best features, remove them and try to gaslight me into thinking it’s better now.

I’m just done with them.

It doesn’t have to be some privacy focused security super encrypted email service if that doesn’t fit your use case. Use outlook.com, fastmail, proton, try one out for just shopping accounts that you check for orders and shipping etc. I get that we should have privacy and outlook isn’t any better than gmail but I’m just not an all or nothing kinda person. If you’re cool with what it offers and what it takes, then try it out.

Note that I use proton, paid member for 4 years and going. Happy with service. My point is that you need to pick the right tool for the job.

My choices are more about not having everything on Google (or being let down yet again) than my fear of google knowing I emailed my accountant two months ago or that I bought a dog poop scooper from Amazon.

Google just canceled the pixel pass service and it was the last straw for me. I had already moved email to proton but now Ive completed the calendar shift, search to ddg, and drive to something else. My Google speakers barely understand anything anymore and I’m just sick of investing in an eco system that may or may not be there in a year.

All that is off topic to the article which is nostalgic about Google reader and search without ads, but the topic is part of a larger problem. I used to feel that using Google was a project of humans categorizing information, building something amazing and now it feels like I’m shopping at Walmart when i use their products. The type of feeling I can only describe as “I need this thing now so I’m here, let’s get in and out as quick as possible before I spend more money or become annoyed with the environment”.

This isn’t to just shit on Google, but the point is I used to feel as I was a part of something bigger, humans creating a way to access the world’s information accurately and easily and now it’s much more complicated and that feeling is gone.

Maybe it’s all in my head.

“straight up down” made me laugh.

Same for me, thought it was buggy at first but no, lemmy.world is struggling. Luckily I have another instance I use too, excited for that"coming feature" listed in sync ultra to copy subscriptions between accounts!

Same, for as long as I can remember. Great app.