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Has this changed your mind about hosted third party services? I have seen a number of people bitten by this kind of vendor behaviour, but they swiftly go back
by ungamedplayer 5y ago
Has this changed your mind about hosted third party services? I have seen a number of people bitten by this kind of vendor behaviour, but they swiftly go back to making the same mistake.
- nnoitra 5y agoHow safe is my data if I use Notes on Mac and then upload it to iCloud? The reasoning is that Apple is a trillion dollar company and they've no interest in screwing me over. I know it's naive but a consolation I guess. If not, what would be an alternative?
- joshspankit 5y agoThey do have an interest in making sure you can’t take your data with you if you leave which I would argue is a type of screwing you over.
- wiredfool 5y agoFor a long while, notes backend used IMAP. I lost a bunch of notes that I didn't realize were stored on an email account that went away.
- joshspankit 5y agoIt’s certainly changed my mind. Now, part of my vetting process for new services is “can I not just get my data out, but also the metadata I care about?”. That’s done with the first few projects/documents/whatever, and then because of being bitten in the past, I know I must do the same export at least twice a year in order to know that the company has not silently restricted it.