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Following the decline in popularity of its failed social media platform, and a spate of security breaches, Google announced it would be deleting all data from Google+ beginning in April, but there are those out there that intend to preserve its somewhat underwhelming legacy.
Itās the Internet Archiveās goal to conserve large swathes of the internet in a vast online library so that our rich digital history isnāt at the mercy of various website authors and server hosts that otherwise preside over the data. āOur mission is to provide universal access to all knowledgeā, the Archiveās website claims.
As such, the task of preserving the legacy of all the public Google+ posts has been put to the Internet Archive, and in a public announcement via Reddit, the organisation revealed it had commenced the archival process using automated scripts to trawl through the social platform.
Donāt want your comments to be immortalized?
Naturally, there are some limitations being enforced in order to manage the undertaking ā only posts currently labeled as āpublicā will be archived, comment threads will have a hard cap of the first 500 comments, and videos and images wonāt be stored in their original full resolution.
If you happen to have signed up for a Google+ account at some point and have made some public posts over the years you donāt want the world to know about, you should get down to removing these now ā or mark them as private.
There is, however, a chance your public post has already been archived, in which case the Internet Archive has laid down a procedure for you to follow to request your post be removed from the site.
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Itās the Internet Archiveās goal to conserve large swathes of the internet in a vast online library so that our rich digital history isnāt at the mercy of various website authors and server hosts that otherwise preside over the data. āOur mission is to provide universal access to all knowledgeā, the Archiveās website claims.
As such, the task of preserving the legacy of all the public Google+ posts has been put to the Internet Archive, and in a public announcement via Reddit, the organisation revealed it had commenced the archival process using automated scripts to trawl through the social platform.
Donāt want your comments to be immortalized?
Naturally, there are some limitations being enforced in order to manage the undertaking ā only posts currently labeled as āpublicā will be archived, comment threads will have a hard cap of the first 500 comments, and videos and images wonāt be stored in their original full resolution.
If you happen to have signed up for a Google+ account at some point and have made some public posts over the years you donāt want the world to know about, you should get down to removing these now ā or mark them as private.
There is, however, a chance your public post has already been archived, in which case the Internet Archive has laid down a procedure for you to follow to request your post be removed from the site.
[ul]
[li]Google could be working on a foldable phone too[/li][li]Google Duo audio calls are coming to Google Home speakers[/li][li]How to fix Google Chrome[/li][/ul]
Continue readingā¦