Anyone can get screenshot of this page? Got 404 for me. Seems like it is prohibited in my region (Asia).
Same here (Russia).
Google Saves
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Re: Google Saves
#82The problem I have with Google tech, especially after the new Nest stuff has to come to light, is that there's no guarantee they'll support it for very long. It's entirely possible that I'll incorporate this into my workflow, just for Google to kill it off a year later.
Out of curiosity, but what's your gold standard for companies that sustain services over time? Or is your suspicion scoped to free services, of which Google has dropped a number of well-liked but non-revenue-generating services? For their most popular products...I've found them to be pretty stable...little apps I've created using their Javascript mapping still function even though I knew so little about JS back then.…
That's the dilemma I have: I'm finding that I'm hesitant to get behind "cloud" services, especially free ones, because I can't know how long they're going to be around.
Which really annoys me, because they're convenient as hell, especially for non-technical users. Sure, I could run a server in my apartment and get a self-hosted thing and whatnot, but I can't expect my parents to.
TL;DR, I don't know the right answer to when we should use cloud services.
Re: Google Saves
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
The good news is depending on your air-gap setup, you can still participate in the global PII market. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-tha...
That's amazing. If anyone had predicted that a year or two ago, people would have called him a paranoid conspiracy theorist. But leave it to marketeers to push the envelope--as surreptitiously as possible of course. Reason #47 to use ad-blocking tools on everything. If anything kills advertiser-supported content on the Internet, it will be the advertisers themselves.
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Re: Google Saves
#84It seems that you can search for the full text of the webpages you saved, which is the best part Google can do.
I am using pinboard at present and decide to give Google Save another try even though there is no urge need for this.