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If you don't use Google then you can't get locked out. I don't. I've never understood why people would actually trust their data to Google or any Big Tech comp
by hilbert42 6y ago
If you don't use Google then you can't get locked out. I don't.
I've never understood why people would actually trust their data to Google or any Big Tech company when there's no guarantee one will always have access to it.
That said, we need laws to guarantee people can always reclaim their data even if their account is closed or the company goes bust.
- mnahkies 6y agoI think it's a matter of convenience - running your own gsuite like application (eg nextcloud) safely and securely is out of reach for most users, either for want of education or time
- cbozeman 6y agoLOL, that is enormously out of the reach of most users... What you mean to say is that it isn't out of the reach for anyone visiting YCombinator. Most "users" have less understanding now, many of them having lived with this technology their entire lives, than I did at 14 when I got my first computer... A Pentium 75 with 8 MB of RAM and a 540 MB hard drive.
- thdrdt 6y agoFor me it was a free email account when you had to be invited for gmail. Then I got an Android phone and used the account for it. Then I used the calendar app which used the same account. So it vendor lock-in all the way. But I already migrated my email to a VPS and will migrate my calendar and contacts as well. But this is not something everybody knows how to do.