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Why in god's name do so many people with even modest IT knowledge keep using this invasive dumpster fire of a cloud service with conditions like this one and ot
by helloworld11 5y ago
Why in god's name do so many people with even modest IT knowledge keep using this invasive dumpster fire of a cloud service with conditions like this one and others being piled on? There are so many affordable, secure and easy to use options on the web that trusting Google with your data seems absurd, especially considering how easily the company can simply permaban you for no discernible reason and not a human in range to dispute the matter with. At this stage, using any Google service is sort of like trying to expect decent customer service from the DMV and IRS rolled into one.
- judge2020 5y agoBecause (A) it's a usable interface accessible by pretty much anyone [with a phone number, as of recent] (B) it's cheap as you don't pay for bandwidth and storage is either $0 for 15GB or paid storage at a low-priced rate[0] (C) all of that storage is geo-redundant and thus extremely unlikely to ever be lost, outside of Google terminating accounts (which isn't part of a lot of people's risk models). 0: https://one.google.com/about/plans https://one.google.com/about/plans