December 15, 2025
Graveyard shift, comment wars
Killed by Google
Google swings the axe again; comments roast a spammer
TLDR: Google is sunsetting Tables in hours, adding to past cuts like its VPN and the phone-screen Android Auto. The comment section erupted into a mini-brawl over a user spamming deletion requests, echoing wider frustration that Google’s frequent shutdowns make people wary of trusting its products.
Google’s graveyard got fresh flowers today: Tables, a simple collaborative database meant to make project tracking easier, is being wheeled to the morgue in about six hours. It joins older casualties like VPN by Google One (Google’s virtual private network that hid your internet address) and Android Auto for phone screens (the car-friendly phone app), both already gone. The community’s vibe? Exhausted eye-rolls and dark humor. People joked about playing “Google Graveyard Bingo” and dropped puns like “the Tables really turned.” Others warned: never build your workflow on Google experiments. A few hot takes said Airtable “won by outliving its clone,” while drivers still grumble that removing the phone-screen Auto stranded older cars. Fans shrugged that the VPN felt like a marketing checkbox anyway. Optimists argued pruning keeps focus, but the louder chorus thinks it just keeps users on edge.
Then the plot twist: the comments spiraled into a meta drama. One user kept posting demands to delete their account and comments, prompting clapbacks like “I’ll bite—why are you even here?” and “email support, not the thread.” The moderation soap opera stole the spotlight from the product obits. Some saw it as the perfect metaphor: users feel ghosted, shout into the void, and get told to move along. The growing consensus: trust is thin, memes are thick, and the Killed by Google ledger keeps getting longer.
Key Points
- •Tables, a collaborative database platform with automation and an Airtable competitor, is scheduled to shut down in about six hours.
- •Tables was nearly six years old at the time of its shutdown.
- •VPN by Google One, offering encrypted data transit and IP masking, was discontinued over a year ago after more than three years of operation.
- •Android Auto for phone screens, enabling a phone-based car interface, was discontinued over three years ago after more than two years of availability.
- •The article provides brief descriptions, ages, and discontinuation timelines for each Google service listed.