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> "the cloud" isn't a panacea for your storage needs. Except that is exactly how cloud companies market themselves. That is exactly what cloud companies have b
by rco8786 5y ago
> "the cloud" isn't a panacea for your storage needs.
Except that is exactly how cloud companies market themselves. That is exactly what cloud companies have been telling consumers for a decade+.
Right up to the point of commercials showing someone lose a device and saying “no worries, it’s all in the cloud!”, etc. We’ve been told for years that our data is safer in the cloud than it is on our own devices. That the cloud itself IS the backup system.
Normal people didn’t just arrive at this conclusion on their own. They were fed it directly from the companies that we are all now supposed to just innately understand are not to be trusted with our data.
- smoldesu 5y agoSounds like either side was complicit in the matter. Again, I know it's not an easy pill to swallow (I anticipate both these comments will be dead or grey in time), but that's just how computers work. All the effort we put into abstraction is worthless if it allows (or in this case, encourages) the end-user to make catastrophic mistakes.
- mvanbaak 5y ago'The Cloud' is just someone else's computer. Nothing more nothing less
- pc86 5y agoIn a thread full of unhelpful, pedantic comments this is a podium finisher for sure.
- Moru 5y agoIt's just one of those memes on the net, I'm sure GP meant no harm at this time. Do a google for it, it's everywhere. We have all been bitten by it.
- pc86 5y agoI mean it's a statement of fact, not really a meme. I've heard it before, I've said it before. But it's irrelevant in this context.
- rco8786 5y agoOk, thanks.
- choikwa 5y agoGiving away all assets to one cloud company is definitely risky.
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- Moru 5y agoYoutube isn't "the cloud". It's an entertainment provider like TV, it's not really something you mistake for backup of your stuff.
- rco8786 5y agoMaybe to the more technical crowd that’s true. But to the average person uploading their videos to YouTube it most definitely is.
- scarface74 5y agoYouTube has never promised or implied your videos that are on their servers for free would be there forever.
- userbinator 5y agoThe more cynical among us never believed their lies and knew things like this would happen. I hope normal people also start realising that they were being fed marketing BS all along, and no doubt the more things like this happen, the sooner they will.