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... currently. Trusting a dubious central authority up until you get burned is a bad heuristic.
by soulofmischief 4y ago
... currently.
Trusting a dubious central authority up until you get burned is a bad heuristic.
- smoldesu 4y agoI agree, which is why I don't pay for cloud storage.
- b112 4y agoEspecially when Google has said "we won't do thing X", then been caught already doing it, or just silently starting to do it. Just location tracking. The lies. Over, and over, and over, and over again the lies.
- maxbond 4y agoInstitutions of that nature are incapable of following through on nearly any promise made to the public at large; every promise is a lie, whether they break it or not, because they can't be said to have the intention to uphold it. I see no reason not to believe that Page and Brin sincerely desired Google not to be evil; but it's the institution decides to do evil, not any individual, so they did not have (or could not maintain, as the organization scaled) the power to guarantee this. No one does.
- sgregnt 4y agoWhat's the difference? Potentially apple itself can fecide to scan all your photos on the phone....
- soulofmischief 4y agoI don't use an iPhone, and I use an aftermarket Android ROM.