Google bookmarks won't be supported past September 31, 2021

by penguin_booze on 8/2/2021, 4:11 PM with 56 comments

Just logged in to bookmarks, and found this message: https://imgur.com/a/OQ7YZqB.

  • by kjhughes on 8/2/2021, 4:30 PM

    To be clear, this is not Chrome's ability to save bookmarks and its useful ability to synchronize bookmarks across devices when logged into a Google account.

    This is an older bookmark service provided here:

    https://www.google.com/bookmarks/

    In my case, I see a bunch of locations from Google Maps. It would be nice if those continued to be supported in Google Maps in some manner after Google sunsets the old Google Bookmarks service.

  • by wly_cdgr on 8/2/2021, 4:44 PM

    Tough day for Google, but I wouldn't want to have to compete with Pinboard either

  • by crazygringo on 8/2/2021, 6:46 PM

    Honestly who even knew this existed in the first place? It dates back to 2005 and at least as far as appearances go, looks as if was never updated since.

    Makes total sense to have (the tiny number of) users transfer their bookmarks to a service that's actually widely used and supported.

    People might have good reason to criticize Google for shutting down some things... but in this case it's absolutely the right decision.

  • by gortok on 8/2/2021, 5:15 PM

    The title has a typo; September has 30 days.

  • by floatingatoll on 8/2/2021, 4:54 PM

    The missing text-post content from above is:

    > After September 30th 2021, Google Bookmarks will no longer be supported. To save your bookmarks, click "Export bookmarks".

  • by summerlight on 8/2/2021, 4:54 PM

    Google map's starred locations have a limitation of 500 stars to be shown and AFAIK there's not many easy ways to access more than that except the bookmark service. I wonder if they're going to remove this limitation?

  • by uses on 8/2/2021, 5:17 PM

    Is this some kind of advanced google PR algorithm move to finally kill off something that nobody will mind, because nobody knows it exists?

  • by kirubakaran on 8/2/2021, 5:37 PM

    I built https://histre.com/ It does a whole lot more than just bookmarks: https://histre.com/features/

    The browser extension is open source btw: https://gitlab.com/histre/browser-extension

    It would be cool if you could try it and share your feedback with me at k@histre.com

  • by ezekg on 8/2/2021, 4:26 PM

    I honestly don't know why people still use Google products. They have the worst track record I have ever seen.

  • by delecti on 8/2/2021, 4:53 PM

    I didn't even realize this existed, despite using it. It seems this is what's responsible for storing/managing my "Starred" locations/businesses on Google Maps. I wonder if that ability is going away too. That'd be a bit of a shame.

  • by mlmonge on 8/2/2021, 6:16 PM

    Now I know there are tons of bookmarking services, each with its own pros/cons. I'm curious to know the services the HN community uses (apart from the built-in browser feature). In particular, in response to GB going away. Do share, pls

  • by nickthemagicman on 8/2/2021, 4:50 PM

    I use raindrop.io.

    Have had great experiences.

  • by ceejayoz on 8/2/2021, 6:01 PM

    Hopefully they'll sell it to Pinboard, lol.

    (https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...)

  • by Fire-Dragon-DoL on 8/4/2021, 3:45 PM

    How am I supposed to save important places on google maps now?

  • by mglass3000 on 8/2/2021, 6:09 PM

    Move to Bookmark OS and don't look back

  • by dreyfan on 8/2/2021, 4:46 PM

    I so look forward to the day when we have Google Cloud won't be supported past <a few months in the future>.

  • by penguin_booze on 8/2/2021, 4:21 PM

    I guess I'll move everything to Firefox.