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Yet another Google web service bites the dust in August when ‘goo.gl’ links will stop working

Last week, Google announced that the end is nigh for Google URL Shortener: shortened “goo.gl” web links will stop working on August 25, 2025, except for those generated by Google’s own web tools. In the meantime, an interstitial page warning users about the upcoming linkpocalypse will begin showing on a percentage of affected links, telling …

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How To Stop Google Deleting Gmail Messages And Photos In 2024 Purge

As Google starts deleting Gmail and Photo accounts, here’s how to save yours. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google has already confirmed that it will be purging inactive accounts in 2024. As reported by Forbes last year, the purge of dormant accounts and deletion of Gmail messages with Google Photos images started on December 1, …

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Web links made with Google URL Shortener will stop working soon

What you need to know Google is pulling the plug for shortened links created via Google URL Shortener. The popular goo.gl links will no longer work after August 25, 2025. Google will also be showcasing a new interstitial page for users to notify about the new move starting this August. Google has announced that links …

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Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI – stop indexing content | Google

Opinion The search engine’s response to ChatGPT and its ilk is to take a highly partial approach to what it considers worthy of attention Sat 20 Jul 2024 16.00 BST Once upon a time, a very long time ago in internet years – 1998 – Google was truly great. A couple of lads at Stanford …

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How to hide your Gmail address — Stop unwanted emails from filling your inbox

If you’re trying to learn how to hide your Gmail address, chances are you might be overwhelmed with the amount of junk mail piling up in your inbox. Maybe you’ve signed up for a mailing list of your own free will to receive a great coupon or access to a site, or maybe you think …

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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 …

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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 …

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Google’s goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025

After Google stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March of 2019, those links will stop working on August 25, 2025. Google announced it was shutting down goo.gl for consumers and developers in 2018. New link creation, as well as analytics and management, ended a year later for all users. When https://goo.gl/* stops working, it will …

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Gmail Access From Outlook.com To Stop In 13 Days

Outlook.com have until June 30 to access Gmail picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft is about to introduce new security requirements that will mean users of Outlook.com will no longer be able to access their Gmail inboxes. Starting June 30, if you want to use Outlook to access your Gmail account email, then you will …

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Google needs to stop blocking VPNs on Android Auto – Here’s how to fix it

I never thought I’d need to deal with this. I’ve been using Android VPNs for years now, and after getting a new car, I wanted to hit the roads and blast some Sleep Token. As you can imagine, I hit something of a snag – Android Auto blocks your connection if it detects even the …

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