@SPArcheon-onstrike You rang? :p On a more serious note, this isn't really that big of a problem. They're moving to GC in particular because they have a partnership with Google. They probably negotiated good GC terms when they partnered (though we'll never find out the real details there). As a side-note, the data dump itself is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure (cloudflare storage), so the only difference now is that google gets to see all traffic hitting SO

In terms of the google-ness of the site, it's not really any different. Google can poke at more user data if they really want to, but Google is already built into the site in several places. Google login, Google ads, and Google analytics are already in use. Just moving from their own hardware to Google-owned hardware functionally doesn't do anything worse than switching to Cloudflare (which is bad because a more centralised internet is fundamentally bad and not what the internet was designed

for)

Anyway, wouldn't worry too much about it. As far as changes go, it isn't too negatively impactful just by it happening (unlike the CF migration. RIP Boson). The data still lives on

@SPArcheon-onstrike based from personal observation, looks like some factors related to my circumstance made me rarely targeted by ads, so good luck hunting them ads :)

I don't think anyone has really felt the need to add VR to Princess Maker so announcing a new "Idol Maker" game with VR comes out a little odd

especially since the actual graphics are still very interface based, so the end look is "playing with action figure"