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Google Earth desktop edition is still available. And it's still approximately ten thousand times better than the browser edition.

https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html

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It's gradually phased out. Right now it's essentially abandonware. At some point in the future they'll just kill it out of the blue. Things that provide value to advanced users don't matter to most of these "data-based" companies.

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