Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Google Shuttering Google+ for Consumers After Undisclosed Data Exposure
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
DuckDuckGo with bangs - !g followed by your search term gives you an encrypted, anonymous Google search if you don't like DDG's results. VERY useful !w for wikipedia and loads of others.
[doublepost=1539071437][/doublepost]
This bit enrages me, this is the one essential Google service for me besides gmail.
The moral of the story is to never use any Google products or services. Sooner or later you’re going to get burned by those crooks.
So Their Project Zero decide to publish whatever / whomever's bug despite Apple and Microsoft's best effort telling them they need a few more days to publish and fix, while their internal products gets a free pass.
It's not a good business model to be giving data away for free when you're also selling it. Whoops Google.
The thing I find annoying is that google+ while not great is at least better than facebook in many ways. I see facebook as a way locking in and leaving behind the ugly dregs of society, the people who can't even have a conversation without emoji and lol every two seconds. The biggest problem with tech is not that everyone should have access to it, it's the everyone has access to it! The reason we hear about flat earth and far out extreme politics is because we've allowed the mentally deficient to get online and those out-there beliefs that would usually never be heard are screamed from the digital roof tops. There has to be a way of quelling the crazy but I think it's happening naturally anyway with banning of infowars etc. Sorry to go slightly off topic but social media is broken right now and Google revealing such a large bug is a symptom I think.
The thing I find annoying is that google+ while not great is at least better than facebook in many ways. I see facebook as a way locking in and leaving behind the ugly dregs of society, the people who can't even have a conversation without emoji and lol every two seconds. The biggest problem with tech is not that everyone should have access to it, it's the everyone has access to it! The reason we hear about flat earth and far out extreme politics is because we've allowed the mentally deficient to get online and those out-there beliefs that would usually never be heard are screamed from the digital roof tops. There has to be a way of quelling the crazy but I think it's happening naturally anyway with banning of infowars etc. Sorry to go slightly off topic but social media is broken right now and Google revealing such a large bug is a symptom I think.
Funny that most of the comments are sarcasm about G+ still being alive in 2018 and not about the fact that Google had a security breach open for 3 years without noticing.
It has a terrible name that doesn't reflect how good it actually is. Much better quality search results. I switched long time ago. When I compare it now to Google results, it shows that Google is about selling stuff to the user and less about finding relevant information.
You 'can't' spell either but that's a separate issue.
Perhaps people will wake up one day and realise social media was never a good idea whichever platform it is.
If you had a YouTube or Google account, a Google+ account was created for you automatically. No need to “sign up” for one.
Google Wave..... Google Duo/Allo.... Google Inbox.... Google+ ..... Google------?
Well, there seems to be very limited outrage on the data leakage. Granted this was one of those things no one cared about... still some anger would not be misplaced.
I guess it's just natural to read of this news and slip on to the tangent of what the heck was google+ supposed to be anyways.
I guess it's just natural to read of this news and slip on to the tangent of what the heck was google+ supposed to be anyways.
How considerate of them. Going out of their way to make it more efficient and easier for them to gather even more data from us.
[doublepost=1539082751][/doublepost]
With all those gazillion Google apps and add-ons, comes more ways for them to infiltrate our privacy.
Google Software is mostly rubbish anyway. Search is ok, Maps is alright and then it’s all downhill from there.
The iOS OneDrive app has supported HEIC for a while now.
Attachments
Looks amazing!DDG looking sexxxxxxxyyy as ever!
![]()
To be fair, various features, designs, etc. from those products have been used In other ones, while they might not have been if those things weren't tried out and tweaked to one degree or another first in those products that ended up getting discontinued.
Google is in bigger trouble than most of you can imagine.
A select few roaming these boards might have an idea of what I'm talking about.
Expect some interesting news about them soon.
A select few roaming these boards might have an idea of what I'm talking about.
Expect some interesting news about them soon.
