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I've uploaded a lot of data to Google(mostly photos) and someday if Google decides that I'm in violation of their policy and chooses to lock me out of system I'

• torgian 8y ago
  I use hard drives.
• dredmorbius 8y ago
  One of the initiatives to come out of this is to try to raise awareness, and tool availability, for doing just this. Though local control of your own data, plus reliable and secure off-site replication, helps a lot. I'm strongly partial to git-based publishing tools -- SSGs and markdown hosted on the site of my choice, though GitLab and GitHub are both convenient options. The fact that everything is in Git makes rehoming vastly simpler. And I've been bit a few times too many by service shutdowns, with about three consequential projects still in process (the earliest, Readability's shutdown, is over 2 years ago, and I'm still digging out).
• 0815test 8y ago
  To be fair, Google does allow access to your own data via Google Takeout.