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Comment by JimDabell | Hacker News Reader

Cloudflare offered to keep it running and were turned away:

https://x.com/elithrar/status/1948451254780526609

Remember this next time you are thinking of depending upon a Google service. They could have kept this going easily but are intentionally breaking it.

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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.

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.

Shhh don't remind them

Pretty sure you can thank the FCC for that :)

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.

Mass surveillance pipeline to the successor of room 641A.

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.

It's the most enterprise-y and legacy thing Google sells.

> Remember this next time you are thinking of depending upon a Google service.

Next time? I guess there’s a wave of new people that haven’t learned that that lesson yet.

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