Every week or so I see a post here on HN about someone losing all of their YouTube videos to a Google AI accusation of copyright infringement, or of their Google account being shut down because of content in their Google Drive being flagged as disallowed.
I don't think most people see this as a pattern, and I'd like to share evidence of the trend with friends and family so that they can protect themselves.
Is there a website that consolidates these cases and potentially summarizes them?
https://killedbygoogle.com (Google Graveyard - Killed by Google)
It's a quite big list of services axed by Google. Some might argue that it's "their right" to close their own services. I disagree, because it's not so simple. This site is litany of digital harms inflicted by a company that uses the internet as its own private testing laboratory in which we are all guinea-pigs. Their cavalier attitude to unilaterally shuttering services, often with scant warning, has caused real economic damage to millions. You might argue that, on the contrary Google have provided valuable free services, missing the point that the harms outweigh the benefits because continuity and trust are more valuable than mere availability.