That's not really an explanation, though. The web interface works today and will continue to work through April 3. So, if Google wanted it to continue, it would.
That's arguably an implementation issue rather than a more fundamental issue. I.e. it can be fixed, and we all know that Google is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Quote, "The problem is now fixed, but not without significant impact to the domain in question and no explanation from GOogle as to how an “internal issue” can disable a business for over a week."
I'd expect within seconds that Google is alerted of a very large number of issues with their servers and that the status page would be updated (the green light going to red) within seconds. It's now quite some time after the start of the outage and everything is still green on that status page.
Am I missing the joke or something? You quoted a sentence from just above the updated statement that Google has confirmed the issue and working on solving it.
I would guess that this more of an oversight than anything else. There will be some public grumbling about it, and Google will respond by fixing their Terms of Service to look more like the others.
I think your premise is wrong. The service isn't broken. I'd assume Google has enough people and data to know that it's doing what most people want. They were even kind enough to put in a workaround for the minority for whom it doesn't work well (which appears to be OP).
Honestly, this is the only proof I'm willing to accept for the survival of any low-revenue service that Google provides! But still, google code didn't live.
Services are not restored. Some came up again, some not. My Gsuite business mail is still completely down, while youtube started working again.
I'm pretty sure there will be some internal conferences at Google after this to make sure infrastructure problems can't propagate across the entire company and world at this rate even in the event of a sysop fatfingering a console...
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