Imho a decision that doesn’t make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers.
Although I would never subscribe to something from Google for my business, then when they eventually change mind and kill my product, i have to migrate in an hurry. I’ve been hurted too many times
No Google service can last. I’ve come to the point where I no longer trust any new product they put out.
Yeah, I need to switch to another authenticator app because I’m not sure I even trust that at this point.
Edit: love this community, say I’m looking to switch and I get a plethora of suggestions within the hour lol
You can try Aegis, it’s great
andOTP on android is also good
I suggest Authy, BTW. It’s an excellent option IMHO, with cross device synchronization. Thats my favorite part, being able to run it on multiple phones at once without any hassle. And desktop.
If you don’t like the idea of your (encrypted) TOTP database being synced via a third party, another alternative could be to use KeepassXC’s TOTP support and sync the database via a file service you trust (Like a Nextcloud instance)
You don’t even need to trust the cloud storage as long as you have a sufficiently strong database password.
Sure; But that’s only true for as long as it’s true - So I can understand the kind of person who isn’t comfortable storing their password dbs on someone else’s servers.
You will find some good options here https://www.privacyguides.org/en/multi-factor-authentication/#authenticator-apps
I switched to protonmail and I am really happy with that decision. Not saying that’s the right client for you but I upgraded as well after using it for free for several months which gave me the drive, the calendar and the vpn also. The vpn works great on iOS and it does work on Linux Mint, but the GUI version is awful, skip that and just use the cli. The drive is really cool and it encrypts all the data. The calendar seems kind of pointless but it’s encrypted so that’s cool I guess.
Same here. The only problem with protonmail is that there is almost no option to use standard clients. For mail you have protonmail bridge which is pain in the ass but better than nothing. Calendar and storage is practically useless if you are not able to integrate it to the standard phone app or desktop client.
But I understand that this is the price for encryption.I don’t really have that issue but I realize most people do. I prefer to use the web client for desktop and the app for iOS. Privacy and encryption is a huge pain in the ass and it comes with a lot of inconvenience, but the flip side is knowing that I paid for a service that is going to do it’s best to keep my data secure and most importantly, not look at it. When I heard microsoft was reading peoples emails and unlocking files in onecloud I was floored. I can’t believe we trust these companies with any type of messaging service.
Next move:
- Google buys Squarespace
- ???
- Profit
Then in a couple of years either merges square space into Google Sites or shuts it down.
It’s Google, they’d shut down.
Does anybody even use google sites?
I probably would if they didn’t shut projects down every second week.
I do, but I’m not running anything super important through them; but I’ve been considering jumping ship to Cloudflare, as cloudflare seems to be doing a good job with providing encryption and traffic protection with their free management accounts.
And I just purchased a domain from them. GoDaddy is not great and while Squarespace is a fine company, no worse than Google at least, more consolidation of domain providers doesn’t seem like a good thing.
I’ve been happy with Cloudflare’s registrar service. It’s pretty barebones and missing some TLDs, so the rest of my domains live at Namecheap.
I’ve also been happy with Cloudflare. It’s not a company without problems, but they’ve been reliable.
There are so many registrars out there that consolidation really isn’t a concern.
This is actually good for the google domain’s customers. Previously, if your google account somehow got banned, either legitimately or by mistake, you’ll lose access to your domain account as well.
Ah yes that’s right
Been using Google Domains for almost 4 years now, pretty sad to see it go away just like that without warning.
Service was amazing and DNS propagation was always ultra fast with them. I hope I won’t lose my Google Workspace account with custom email though
Google still sells domains through GCP. I think this is just removing a duplicate service.
So it’s even worse? They still have to maintain the infrastructure but at the same time have less customers
Knowing Google, they likely had all that infrastructure duplicated, not reused between GCP and Google Domains.
true
Every business has overhead and infrastructure is usually the least of that overhead. They probably had lots of people working in that division and if it’s just a redundancy at this point might as well sell it off and get some cash out of the deal.
Does this mean Squarespace could revoke Google TLD rights from other registrars? Like take back registered .dev domains or refuse to renew them?
your move, bravenet
Yeah, imagine that. CEO makes unpopular decision, alienates loads of users, and triggers mass migration. Couldn’t happen. /s
Sorry, this was a reply to someone elsewhere, but testing out Mlem and it ended up as a top level comment. Wonder if this one will too…
no, this one went to the right spot
I wonder how the transition will affect existing users. I paid upfront for like 2-3 more years, so that better not go away. The Google Domains page still doesn’t show any notice, weirdly.