Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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+0.42	Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers (blog.google)
	1613 points by Nemant 2698 days ago \| 699 comments on HN \| Moderate positive ~lite vlight-1.2

Summary ~lite Data Protection & Privacy Acknowledges

Google restricts third-party API access to protect user data privacy.

EQ 0.60

SO 0.70

TD 0.50

Light evaluation by claude-haiku-4-5 · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available

Event Timeline 6 events

2026-02-27 16:19	eval_success	Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00)	- -
2026-02-27 15:09	eval_success	Evaluated: Mild positive (0.27)	- -
2026-02-27 12:56	dlq	Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers	- -
2026-02-27 12:54	rate_limit	OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b	- -
2026-02-27 12:53	rate_limit	OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b	- -
2026-02-27 12:52	rate_limit	OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b	- -

build d23eaf0+fmec · deployed 2026-02-27 16:15 UTC · evaluated 2026-02-27 13:03:28 UTC