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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by m-p-3 on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:49AM (#16885199)
Wasn't it called Google Talk? And it was based on Jabber/XMPP, which let you use any compatible client.

I hate that they dropped support for it, choosing to go with a proprietary protocol without any public APIs.

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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by ocdtrekkie on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:51AM (#16885226)
It was Talk, but I think before it was a separate offering/app, it was just "chat on Gmail", and hence, "GChat" took off as an informal name for it.
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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by cjhopman on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:17PM (#16887705)
> which let you use any compatible client

Which means that third-parties can easily capture large parts of the "friends" graph with just a small number of users consenting to give them data.

You're also now entrusting your communications to whatever clients other people are using without any chance/need for you to consent to their privacy policies.

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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by AznHisoka on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:23AM (#16885500)
Yep, sorry, Google Talk. Edited my message
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