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Google to kill off URL shortener once and for all • The Register
Google will soon make its own contribution to the problem of link rot by shutting down the Google URL Shortener service in 2025. The Google URL Shortener was launched in 2009 as an attempt to make lengthy links manageable by feeding them into Google’s shortener, which spat out shorter ones in the form of https://goog.gl/*. …
How To Enable Less Secure App Access For Gmail (And Why You Might Want To)
To be fair, there aren’t many less secure apps out there, but you can still bypass the policy change if you really want to. Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy as turning on a setting. Instead, you need to take the more secure route of setting up an app password. Essentially, Google will generate a random …
How To Enable Less Secure App Access For Gmail (And Why You Might Want To)
To be fair, there aren’t many less secure apps out there, but you can still bypass the policy change if you really want to. Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy as turning on a setting. Instead, you need to take the more secure route of setting up an app password. Essentially, Google will generate a random …
Pixel 9 Pro pre-orders getting ‘piece of Google Pixel design history’
If you pre-order the Pixel 9 Pro series in a handful of countries, Google is throwing in a “limited -edition collectible.” On the Australia, Japan, and Singapore Google Stores, the “special gift for our first orders” is described as a “piece of Google Pixel design history.” As this is “exclusively for the first orders of …
Gmail’s upcoming feature is the inbox upgrade we’ve been waiting for
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority One Gmail inbox for everything we need TL;DR Gmail is working on a subscription management feature that promises to help you declutter your inbox. The feature will intelligently categorize senders by email frequency, making it simple to spot potential spam and forgotten subscriptions. It will gather all your subscriptions …
Billions of Google redirects to stop working next year
Google’s URL shortener service will stop serving completely on August 25, 2025, which will result in billions of redirected URLs to stop working after that date. Google stopped allowing us to make new redirects with this service back in March 2019, the service initially launched in 2009. “Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start …
Is Gmail shutting down? Yes and no, but here’s the full story from Google
Spring is not yet here, but the rumors are becoming wilder and wilder. First, the OnePlus, Oppo partnership with Hasselblad was allegedly to be ending (the vivo/Zeiss collaboration was also said to be done), which sparked many discussions on the topic. Now, someone on X/Twitter claims that Gmail, of all things, is shutting down (via …
Google’s shortened links will stop working next year
If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025. Google announced in a blog post that “the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener,” and that any links in the …
Gmail’s Quick Reply feature lets you react to emails like they were text messages
After testing out a Quick Reply feature in Gmail last year, Google’s ready to make the feature a permanent part of its email client — at least for some users. Google has started rolling out Quick Reply to the Android version of Gmail, and the new feature is aimed at making it easier to reply …
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal Slams Google For Slashing Maps’ Fee
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal recently slammed Google for reducing the pricing of the Google Maps platform for developers in India by 70 per cent from August 1. The tech giant announced it would introduce a new country-specific pricing structure to make it easier to build location-based solutions. This announcement, however, did not sit well with …