Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak (theverge.com)

Google+ has suffered another data leak, and Google has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. From a report: Google+ will now close to consumers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to developers, even if their account was set to private. Apps could also access profile data that had been shared with a specific user, but was not shared publicly.

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Re:Doing what Google is best at

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I'd also add that they're the masters of half-assed implementations. They very often bring something out that's not even beta level in terms of functionality, get bombarded with requests for new features that should have been there on day one, and then take fucking forever to implement even a few of the requests.

But Agile(TM) and MVP and DevOps! Surely there's no need to actually make something work. Surely all our users are Agile app appers who app apps and understand that the MVP comes first and as long as it works on the Dev's machine, everything else is Ops' problem! End users and feature requests? Pah! If it can't be done within a two-week sprint, it's not worth doing! Now, let's see what functionality we can delete or at least hide deep behind enough multiple layers hamburger menus that our metrics can then "inform" us that we don't have to support it anymore?