This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!
This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!
A thrilling roundup of the things Google has killed this week.
Dead Products (Death Date)
- Mentioned in article:
- Google Podcasts (Later in 2024)
- YouTube Premium Lite (Oct 2023)
- Gmail's "Basic HTML" view (Jan 2024)
- Not mentioned in article:
- Google Optimize (30 Sept 2023)
- Google Domains (30 Sept 2023)
- Mentioned in article:
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.
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.
What's this about basic email?
That's the HTML-only Gmail view. Now you can only use the JavaScript enabled version on web.
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.
Thanks!
The list grows
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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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.
This is in relation to YouTube Premium Lite, and not, as this shortened article implies, Google Podcasts.