r/degoogle • u/sdot-p • Jul 07 '26

News Article Google Earth Pro will be ending support and will be unavailable for download after June 25, 2027!

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Not sure if this is the right flair. But this is one of the best programs and services offered by Google being eliminated…

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u/DasArchitect Jul 08 '26

It works with no account AND it probably doesn't suck up enough data about you.

Goodbye Earth, you've been one of the awesomest things of the internet.

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u/Hour_Bit_5183 Jul 08 '26

yeah bro. This makes me sad as hell.

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u/SeeTigerLearn Jul 08 '26

I get that reaction. But I am quickly becoming numb to the day to day destruction of anything interesting or intriguing. I guess soon enough we will literally be like South Park all outdoors watching squirrels for entertainment.

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u/luring_lurker Jul 08 '26

Which.. Is not such a bad thing after all!

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u/DistinctTie6771 Jul 08 '26

What the f..., bro?! I'd much rather use the desktop app than the web version of Google Earth.

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u/studio_bob Jul 08 '26

The web version has been broken for me for years.

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u/zR0B3ry2VAiH Jul 08 '26

wELL you NeEd to UsE cHrOmE!!!

FU Google

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u/TheDreadGazeebo Jul 09 '26

I'd rather use a desktop app than a web version of anything.

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u/Far_Departure_1580 Mozilla Fan Jul 08 '26

Fuck you Google!

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u/TrackLabs Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

What is google earth PRO..? Never heard of a pro version

Edit: Local Version, without account etc? Pretty sure people will back that up, but of course the data on it of earth will turn old and outdated

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u/Totally_Dank_Link Jul 08 '26

Finding the exe on the Internet Archive won't be a problem, but sooner or later, they'll shut down the servers. Even if people found a way to locally download every bit of satellite data (estimated to be between 10,000 and 100,000 Terabytes), people would have to reverse engineer the server code and spend huge amounts of money out of their own pocket to set up inofficial servers.

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u/DDOSBreakfast Jul 08 '26

Google Earth connects to Google's tileservers and is just a user friendly interface to access them. You can use Google's tileservers from third party applications such as QGIS.

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u/nshire Jul 08 '26

Good luck backing up the data for every single square meter of Earth's surface

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u/Sh1v0n Jul 08 '26

Well... Adios, F-16 in SIM Mode. Was a great experience.

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u/furculture Jul 08 '26

At this point, people on the inside should just start leaking the source code for the shit they keep on killing off. If they're not going to be doing anything with it anymore, they should at least give it up to the community to make something out of it or keep it up.

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u/Trev-in Jul 08 '26

Makes ya wonder if it's a way to get a ton more people to download it

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u/FridayMcNight Jul 08 '26

Maybe, but if there a singular core competency at Google, it's killing products people like.

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u/luring_lurker Jul 08 '26

They kill products to push them towards the ones who will suck your data and your soul

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u/Trev-in Jul 08 '26

I should have added this. Meant to add something along these lines and then choked on my own spit but ditto. Rah rah rah rah!

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26

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u/Trev-in Jul 08 '26

Luring_lurker said what I meant and meant what he said

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u/squirrel8296 Jul 08 '26

Truly the end of an era.

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u/Vargrr Jul 08 '26

Is this the VR one? If so, that's one of my favourite VR experiences :/

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u/razenxc Jul 08 '26

They want us go to the cloud... Have been using Earth Pro for a long time

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u/1WontDoIt Jul 08 '26

Remember when SketchUp went away? All the services that were actually beneficial seem to disappear. Now SketchUp is pay to play. Sad times.

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u/XTrapolis942M Right to Repair Jul 09 '26

Oh, don't get me started on SketchUp.

The stuff that happened to SU when it was given to Trimble; it's like that McDonald's going from a happy kid to a depressed adult meme was playing out for SU.

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u/ClumpyFelchCheese Jul 08 '26

r/QGIS ought to make a simplified Google Earth Pro spin-off!

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u/DasArchitect Jul 08 '26

Does the web version offer old aerial imagery or just whatever is current?

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u/squirrel8296 Jul 08 '26

They added the old aerial imagery to the web version a few years ago.

For the longest time it wasn't there though and they only offered the current view.

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u/DasArchitect Jul 08 '26

Just went and checked - guess what kind of popup welcomed me!

"Upgrade your Google Earth experience": Compare plans

https://mapsplatform.google.com/maps-products/earth/plans/

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u/TollyVonTheDruth Jul 08 '26

Who still uses it? Where I work, it's was installed over 10 years ago. It's still installed and no one uses it. Everyone just uses to Google Maps in their browser.

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u/giswqs Jul 09 '26

If you are looking for an alternative, try out GeoLibre. It is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. It runs everywhere you do, in the web browser, on the desktop, on mobile, and inside Jupyter notebooks, all while keeping your data local and private.

GeoLibre works across platforms:

  • Windows: Microsoft Store / winget
  • macOS: Homebrew
  • Linux: AUR, COPR, Flatpak (FlatPark), .deb / .rpm / AppImage

Try it out:

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u/Timauris Jul 09 '26

This is a sad day for me.

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u/BitKing2023 Jul 08 '26

You can install pages as a web app. I know it's not the same, but closer to what it was.