While this was a free service and thus Google is under no obligation to continue offering this service, this is still quite sad. They could have atleast bundled it for some tier of Google One paid subscription.
We are discontinuing the dark web report
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#22Can one of the good souls at google please donate the data to archive.org?
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#23Is there a product that will do go through the vast expanse of accounts you have and either delete them or mass-change their passwords? I basically I wish to shrink my online presence as much as possible, but doing it manually would mean finding all the various accounts I have, logging in, trying to close, etc. Seems like good fit for an LLM browser agent.
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#24> While the report offered general information, feedback showed that it didn't provide helpful next steps. Translation: We don’t actually want to keep spending time, money, and resources on this.
That's not how it reads to me. I think it's more that they feel they can't share enough information to make it useful without compromising their operating methods. Which is an eternal struggle with stuff like that: the bad guys are reading too.
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#25While this was a free service and thus Google is under no obligation to continue offering this service, this is still quite sad. They could have atleast bundled it for some tier of Google One paid subscription.
It was as inactionable and useless as the ones that ID.me or whatever sends. Also calling it Dark Web report always felt super insincere. It had nothing to do with the "dark web", that just served a way to make it sound cooler and more hackery. Aren't we talking about something that's equivalent to HaveIBeenPwned?
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#26dark web reports in general, seem to be a funnel for paid "security" and monitoring services, VPNs AV suites, typically you review your passwords for strength and redundancy, then you are redirected to buy some service, that ultimately looks like a data hoover, and put everything in a cloud scheme. now we have AI and FOMO to hook and reel in, seemingly more effective than darkweb boogeymen for adoption and revenue.
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#27> While the report offered general information, feedback showed that it didn't provide helpful next steps. Translation: We don’t actually want to keep spending time, money, and resources on this.
That's my read. That it's not a revenue generator and taking server resources that could go to something that is making them money. They've at least added more things to Google One over the past year which softens the blow.
Doubtful. The issue is probably the service needs to be moved to some framework that isn't deprecated and being turned off, and no one can justify side projects these days that don't sell an AI product.
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#28Is there a product that will do go through the vast expanse of accounts you have and either delete them or mass-change their passwords? I basically I wish to shrink my online presence as much as possible, but doing it manually would mean finding all the various accounts I have, logging in, trying to close, etc. Seems like good fit for an LLM browser agent.
whenever you conceive of a weapon/tool to use in a time of struggle, make preparation for the possibility it may be siezed and directed against you.
such a product must be crafted to mitigate its own abuse, as well as the original problem.
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#29I might be misremembering this but FWICR on Chrome it would link your saved passwords with the dark web report, and automatically recommend you change any account that had the same password as the "pwned" account found in the dark net. Was pretty useful.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Is this site still updated? Last entries are from 2024, no way Google didn't kill something this year.
Looks like it's been updated since you posted this.
I know it's still active because I see someone with that handle posting on bluesky regularly.