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The post is conflating two separate things as if they are the same. 1) Personal stuff that you created and own. For example photos on Google Photos. If Google
by mertd 5y ago
The post is conflating two separate things as if they are the same.
1) Personal stuff that you created and own. For example photos on Google Photos. If Google decides to remove a random photo from my collection, that would be a big problem for me. But they don't. On the upside, the probability of Google losing my photos is an order of magnitude lower than my personal hard disk failing and me having forgotten to back it up.
2) Stuff that others created like movies and songs. I really don't care if a show that I was watching drops off of Netflix. I don't have the same emotional investment to it as the stuff in #1. I'll just find something else to watch.
- ngcc_hk 5y agoGoogle issue is whether they will pull the plug of the whole service, change name or what. Then you will ask what. And if you are not looking in that several months … it is really what.
- hkon 5y agoYes, completely valid to treat it as the same when it's something you want to have access to without any third party denying/removing that access. That you have no attachments to movies, music or tv shows is just you. Others may want to continue enjoying the media long after it has been removed from online services.