Hey guys, I guess there are some Google investors here. If you missed it, they just announced that third-party tracking cookies will not be phased out in Chrome (though they said differently in January). But now they’ve moved to a “user-informed choice”. Btw, this isn’t the first time Google has faced scrutiny over privacy concerns.

For those who are new to Google somehow, that's the deal: in 2018, WSJ reported that Google found a "glitch" in Google+ earlier that year, which affected data security. Between 2015 and March 2018, this glitch allowed outside developers access to almost 500k (!!) users' data.

And despite discovering these issues in March 2018, Google didn't inform anybody about them to avoid regulatory issues. Simply - they didn't want "problems with regulators which can affect their reputation" as they said.

They were hit with many suits due to this, and finally, they resolved with $350M the one for the investors over stock drops, so if you invested in GOOG you can check it out (they are also accepting late claims even after the deadline).

Anyways, do you think this tracking cookies thing is going to be solved any time soon? And has anyone here had $GOOG when this “glitch” happened? If so, how much were your losses?

Does anyone else remember the glitch that made it so that if you for some reason shared a URL with someone else's user (number wise), it would log them into your account? I remember this happening to me in like 2016. I didn't care much though and I trusted the person because they let me know lol.

Nothing ever happened with it, it's just something I think about sometimes

maybe some engines? some leaks?
sorry if this were already asked

If you are looking for a social media similar to G+ i would recomend you to take a look at Openspace. It has a lot of the functionality that you remember from G+(Circles, comunities etc). It has startet to get some traction now it has built up a good userbase and traffic. I would realy recomend all of you to give it a try.

Link to site: https://openspace.social/

I didn’t get o sign up for google plus in time so I never got to experience it :( but really, does anyone know?

I was heavy into these communities with roleplay and had a lot of followers, and made a ton of friends before my parents back then took my devices for talking to strangers online hahha , I went by usernames such as: PayIsGay (eddsworld) , Queenofkawaiipaige, KawaiiYummy?

By any chance, I used to interact with a person called ‘pinkguy’ ‘mortythebitch’ with a filthy frank profile picture, who later quit because they thought I died and was never able to get hold of them again!

Enlightened Agent XlRCON here, maybe the last two parts of my Reddit name will jog your memory, I used to just post random stuff I found interesting...

I had an obsession with all of those different takes of megalovania-

i was watching some video and it showed some deep story meme and i thought about google plus for the first time in like 6 years and everyone i asked around me has never used it 😭

When I was around G+ I was all over the site, creating stupid polls, creating drama, posting porn, trolling people. Most importantly I was more active and more social in G+ than I am currently in reddit or any other site in this day and age.

I used to hang out with a myriad of different people and different groups. Cartoon Fight Club was a community I used to hang out a lot and met a lot of people as a result. And made a lot of friends and enemies.

My username in G+ was Lorax the Racoon, I had a two legged stupid lorax as the picture, which I edited smoking a cigar and wearing a top hat. I was known to be a notorious troller and a meme maker at the time. Many of the memes were quite infamous but now forgotten pieces of lost media, the most noteworthy one I've seen still being posted around being this. I used to make a lot of them, especially for trolling furries.

Of which I was also known for nuking an entire furry community off the map of the internet. I have forgotten the name but it was one of the largest furry communities on G+ and Discord (the latter having more than the former). Previously attempts I would just glitch spam the community into oblivion with unfunny memes or stupid shit until I got banned, but in this instance I wanted to try something more interesting. I went undercover and infiltrated the community on both the G+ and Discord. I spent a good few months building a relationship with the community at large of them and met a lot of artists that I still follow to this day without the knowledge of what I had done to them. Of them I made good friend with the mods and admins and I rose as a co-admin of the G+ community very quickly. I could've nuked the G+ furry community there but I wanted to go for the discord as well. It took a lot longer, like half a year and some questionable things to get to the position I could comfortably ask the admin to make me the admin as a joke, which he did.

To my edgy teenager phase, I without a single thought nuked the server clean off the site. And so did I to the G+ community. At first I was filled with excitement and joy for completing a year long mission I set myself to. But after realizing what I had done and how many friends I had lost by doing this... I just became depressed. It never occurred to me just how much of toll this would take on my mental psyche, having shared memes, made friends, had conversations and shared topics. This had a heavy, heavy toll on my psyche ever since. I still think about how many friends I had made during that time and how I broke their hearts and made them unsecure about trusting their own friends.

I have grown past that and owned my mistakes but that thought still lingers to me...

Yeah, a bit of a long tangent but TL;DR G+ meant a lot to me and it had a great impact on my life. Hopefully we could have met before or shared a meme or two with each other.

edit: found

I've been going through my old 'Social' emails for the past half an hour trying to find a link or some kind of string of letters that were apart of my old Google+ profile link. I know for a fact that I've done it before, and I actually pasted the link into archive.org and actually found a snapshot of my profile from like 2017 (so much cringe was on there) but my stupid ass never actually saved or bookmarked that link so I can't find it anymore.

On the links I found through looking at old emails, they all started with a string of numbers, but it started with 0 which I didn't think it would start with. Some of the emails were then followed by a number that was too short to be considered a profile link. Also for the record the only page that was archived on Wayback Machine was the link to my profile, no separate posts or anything. Can someone please tell me what the link to a profile would look like or what part of some of the links I found would contain the ID to my profile?

Here is an example link, I changed just a few numbers just incase someone tries to view my cringe posts from when I was younger (you would probably die from cringe)

https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/emlink?emr=07890112811861993824&emid=CNir8Ku22cdCFUZTTAod5X4AQA&path=%2F&dt=1419241580835&ub=54

Any formal fnaf google+ users? I remember being like 11 or 12 on the site lol and used it for many fandoms, my main one being fnaf and my main name having sommat like sky the fox or sommat lol, ik it's a long shot but I'm just curious

Hey guys, I posted about this settlement already, but in case you missed it, I just found out that they are accepting late claims, so you can still file to get payment even if the deadline has passed. 

For those who are new to Google somehow, that's the deal: in 2018, WSJ reported that Google found a "glitch" in Google+ earlier that year, which affected data security. Between 2015 and March 2018, this glitch allowed outside developers access to almost 500k (!!) users' personal data.

And despite discovering these issues in March 2018, Google didn't inform anybody about that to avoid regulatory issues. Simply - they didn't want "problems with regulators which can affect their reputation" as they said.

They were hit with many suits due to this, and finally they resolved with $350M the one for the investors over stock drops, so if you invested in GOOG you can check it out (they are also accepting late claims even after the deadline).

Actually, I think that Google+ was over even back then, in precovid times, so, they didn't even have a chance to compete with any other platforms so it was kinda predetermined for them. And it's good that they are paying at least something due to this mess.

Hi I'm new in reddit so I'm really sorry if this has been asked before, but I know that the wayback machine (?) has backed up some data from google+, I tried to at least take a look at the page but it instantly sends me to sign up, and nothing ever happens. Is there anything that can be done? D:

Ik that the Internet Archive put a lot of work into archiving stuff from Google+, but I have no idea how I'm supposed to find my profile. I still have the email I used, but there is basically no tutorials on how to get this ID now so I can see what I posted. Even checking old emails from Google+ didnt help. If anyone knows I'd appreciate it

was llstening to old fnaf songs with my girl and randomly got flooded with nostalgia from middle school i use to beat my weiner to undertale porn and then make some cringey ass post about jacksepticeye a hour later those were the days. how did google plus litterally just get deleted from my memory when it deadass shaped my personality today haha

As much as people want to leave "X" [🙄], there hasn't been a good enough alternative. I guess Threads was supposed to be the closest alternative, but even that is insufficient. I don't even have a Threads account as I left Facebook and am not interested in starting an Instagram profile... Either which are a requirement to use Threads.

I think that this would be a great time to revive Google+ using Twitter's form and be a great alternative with Google already being a relevant, established and universally known company.

I just found this subreddit and i was blown away with how many people here also have nostalgia of google plus. I used google plus from when i was 11-15, and i was literally addicted to it. i didn't have many real life friends, so google plus became my safe space, posting art and doing RPs with people. although i love my memories of google plus, it was also not what i should've been on at the time. what I mean is there were so many nsfw groups/art/RP I was exposed to on G+, not to mention the website was crawling with pedophiles. (do you guys remember sexual Sunday? it was literally a porn holiday for goon brained google plus users) ngl I think all the times i was groomed by older rp partners had a long lasting effect on my brain chemistry. I remember I was 12 "dating" a 17 year old, who would rp me sexually, send me extensive amounts of Mario porn, then harassing me when he found another girlfriend. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences of grooming on google plus?

Does anyone that was active on the art side of G+ remember an artist named OliverOats or something like that. His art was a bit plain but albeit cute Anyone know what he's been up to??

This might be a long shot, but this would be the place to ask! I remember just as Google+ was shutting down, users came together to compile screenshots of all the iconic posts into a massive album, I think it was a shared Google photos album.

Does anyone have a link to it?

I’m nostalgic for this, and it’d be cool to see this get revived, just like escargot did to windows live messenger

I was so annoyed by this that one time I tried to make my own Funniest Texts Ever community that was actually meant for what the name implied, only to find out there were like 6 other communities that attempted to do the same thing, but ended up devolving into the exact same generic meme community anyways.

Today marks six years since the site shut down, I'm sure most of us found ourselves new platforms to post on before or after Google pulled the plug.

I had left the site the year prior to its shutdown, but I got to ask for those still around during the final months of Google+ what was it like?

(Art I made in 2022 to pay tribute to Google+)