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Comment by the_duke | Hacker News Reader

Another dupe?

Anybody have tabs on the original non-dupe thread? It doesn't appear to be anywhere near the front page, despite the fact that this is arguably the day's biggest tech story, and the news is around 2 hours old.

The PR piece by Google (currently at spot #1) is apparently what these stories are being "duped" to.

> The PR piece by Google (currently at spot #1) is apparently what these stories are being "duped" to.

I feel a PR piece shouldn't be the only post if there's subtext like "a security/privacy flaw" that affected millions.

Also the comment thread for the Google PR post seem to be mainly about how little Google+ was used and various issues around its launch.

Here's the link if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243

Yeah, I think that official PR pieces shouldn't block articles which critically discuss a company's actions as "dupes".

This the article I saw and made a note to read after I grabbed some food. Came back and poof its gone off the front page.

Thanks for posting this, you saved me a bunch of time digging for it.

Completely missed the top story. I was scanning for "Google+" in the title, and somehow its appearance at the end of the line threw me off :)

I believe it's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243 ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027

Earliest trending thread about this topic was 'Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public ' [1] linking to WSJ [2].

There's a relevant moderator post [3] on the Google PR piece thread [4], which suggests that concerns about the WSJ article's paywall have resulted in a manual moderator intervention to let the Google PR piece inherit the WSJ article's rank on the page. This is unfortunate, because a company PR piece that buries the lede is hardly equivalent to a critical news report.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027 [2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169719 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243

Not a dupe. It’s focusing on the leak instead of the sunsetting

It is a dupe of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027

Which was a WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared...

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