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Resolved. https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265 https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265

by Mtinie 9y ago

trendia 9y ago
As always, the best way to get a big company to help you is to make it a public relations problem.
uselpa 9y ago
Time to move that data (or at least a copy of it) elsewhere.
banned1 9y ago
https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 This person asks that she "demands answers." Since when are beggars choosers? Google is free. Did we really expect a different behavior from them?
- wallace_f 9y ago
  Free in the most obvious sense, but they still profit off of you.
  - jldugger 9y ago
    When I checked a few years ago, Youtube was still not actually profitable. There's a reason it's owned by the company that spins off so much free cash it doesn't know what to do with it all, I guess.
    - wallace_f 9y ago
      Google's parent company, Alphabet is hugely profitable.
- FussyZeus 9y ago
  Google is beholden to advertisers. You are not a customer, even when you are one, you are still the product delivered to them. Using their services is a choice but I've opted out of everything but search, and I'd like to get off of that too. Boggles my mind how people keep thinking Google is this benevolent entity hovering over us. It's a company, with balance sheets. Nothing more.
anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>I hope for good. But, I honestly don't know. I love how Google handles their customers. They just block/remove without any warning, don't respond when asked and reinstate if they have to without any apology or explanation.
- ebcode 9y ago
  ha ha. you said "customers".
  - l0b0 9y ago
    I was a paying customer of theirs for a few years, using GDrive to back up my photos. I suspect many HN users are also Google customers. It is definitely a distinction worth making.

Resolved. https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265 https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265

by Mtinie 9y ago

Resolved. https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265 https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265

trendia 9y ago

As always, the best way to get a big company to help you is to make it a public relations problem.

uselpa 9y ago

Time to move that data (or at least a copy of it) elsewhere.

banned1 9y ago

https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152 This person asks that she "demands answers." Since when are beggars choosers? Google is free. Did we really expect a different behavior from them?

wallace_f 9y ago
Free in the most obvious sense, but they still profit off of you.
- jldugger 9y ago
  When I checked a few years ago, Youtube was still not actually profitable. There's a reason it's owned by the company that spins off so much free cash it doesn't know what to do with it all, I guess.
  - wallace_f 9y ago
    Google's parent company, Alphabet is hugely profitable.
FussyZeus 9y ago
Google is beholden to advertisers. You are not a customer, even when you are one, you are still the product delivered to them. Using their services is a choice but I've opted out of everything but search, and I'd like to get off of that too. Boggles my mind how people keep thinking Google is this benevolent entity hovering over us. It's a company, with balance sheets. Nothing more.

anotherbrownguy 9y ago

>I hope for good. But, I honestly don't know. I love how Google handles their customers. They just block/remove without any warning, don't respond when asked and reinstate if they have to without any apology or explanation.

ebcode 9y ago
ha ha. you said "customers".
- l0b0 9y ago
  I was a paying customer of theirs for a few years, using GDrive to back up my photos. I suspect many HN users are also Google customers. It is definitely a distinction worth making.