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In a sense, that makes life easier for me. One less alternative to consider. The name "Blackblaze" is burned forever. You will never win me as a customer. I wri

In a sense, that makes life easier for me. One less alternative to consider. The name "Blackblaze" is burned forever. You will never win me as a customer. I write this here, because people in similar positions at similar companies might read this. And I do not think I am alone.

magicalhippo 6y ago
Yeah off my list as well. Was looking into them as my backup needs had changed somewhat and they'd finally gotten a datasenter in the EU. Shame.
ajdude 6y ago
Been a huge fan of Backblaze for years and b2 was my plan for server backup; always seemed like a great underdog company in my eyes- they just lost me. I already canceled my Spotify for a similar —Facebook-related— reason.
- throw6119088 6y ago
  What's that with Spotify?
  - foepys 6y ago
    Probably because Spotify is using the Facebook SDK in all their apps. As a user you cannot disable it and a few years back the Facebook SDK caused an outage where you couldn't start Spotify (and many other major apps).
smnrchrds 6y ago
> The name "Blackblaze" is burned forever. So they should be good continuing to use "Backblaze"?
colechristensen 6y ago
https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667238-Backblaze-and-HIPAA https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667238-Backb... backblaze signs BAA agreements with companies storing personally identifiable medical information, I wouldn't believe anyone who told me that this facebook data leak was turned off for those customers; they should immediately be investigated and fined if any such breaches indeed happened. Full agreement, any interest and goodwill towards the company is now completely gone.
- kassah 6y ago
  Unfortunately HIPPA is actually specific in this scenario. I highly doubt file sizes have to do with PHI. However if you can show that they are sending the actual data in the backup, that would be a reportable offense. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, YMMV.
mdoms 6y ago
Yup. Trust gone.
yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
One possible, slight, softening factor - if it's an accident/bug, I might consider them, if they can explain exactly how it happened and what extreme measures they'll take to ensure that it never happens again. But... their initial answer on that thread is > Believe that's the Facebook pixel we use for tracking, we've forwarded to our web team for review in case that is not intended behavior. Just... "in case" it's unintended is not promising.

magicalhippo 6y ago

Yeah off my list as well. Was looking into them as my backup needs had changed somewhat and they'd finally gotten a datasenter in the EU. Shame.

ajdude 6y ago

Been a huge fan of Backblaze for years and b2 was my plan for server backup; always seemed like a great underdog company in my eyes- they just lost me. I already canceled my Spotify for a similar —Facebook-related— reason.

throw6119088 6y ago
What's that with Spotify?
- foepys 6y ago
  Probably because Spotify is using the Facebook SDK in all their apps. As a user you cannot disable it and a few years back the Facebook SDK caused an outage where you couldn't start Spotify (and many other major apps).

smnrchrds 6y ago

> The name "Blackblaze" is burned forever. So they should be good continuing to use "Backblaze"?

colechristensen 6y ago

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667238-Backblaze-and-HIPAA https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667238-Backb... backblaze signs BAA agreements with companies storing personally identifiable medical information, I wouldn't believe anyone who told me that this facebook data leak was turned off for those customers; they should immediately be investigated and fined if any such breaches indeed happened. Full agreement, any interest and goodwill towards the company is now completely gone.

kassah 6y ago
Unfortunately HIPPA is actually specific in this scenario. I highly doubt file sizes have to do with PHI. However if you can show that they are sending the actual data in the backup, that would be a reportable offense. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, YMMV.

mdoms 6y ago

Yup. Trust gone.

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago

One possible, slight, softening factor - if it's an accident/bug, I might consider them, if they can explain exactly how it happened and what extreme measures they'll take to ensure that it never happens again. But... their initial answer on that thread is > Believe that's the Facebook pixel we use for tracking, we've forwarded to our web team for review in case that is not intended behavior. Just... "in case" it's unintended is not promising.