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I like the novelty of this project, but if you value your Google account I wouldn't try this out. Google has been known to close accounts and "related" account
by ranting-moth 4y ago
I like the novelty of this project, but if you value your Google account I wouldn't try this out.
Google has been known to close accounts and "related" accounts for abuse (as defined by them). So even if you create another account, don't expect your main account to survive if there's any possible link between them.
They are the judge, jury and executor, so eff around at your own peril.
- ornornor 4y agoDon’t forget there is no appeal process (let alone the ability to talk to a human) What a brave new world.
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- flangola7 4y agoThis is starting to change. India has a new law requiring social media companies to have a grievance officer and a formal grievance process that allows users to speak to an actual human. It lays out a set of valid reasons to suspend a user, and cannot suspend or penalize a user for reasons not on the list, and must do so in a fair manner as prescribed by law. If the grievance process fails it can be appealed to a government office and then courts.
- hungryforcodes 4y agoPresumably even the BBC could use them...
- flatiron 4y ago$20 a month gives you "unlimited" storage at google. they gladly take my encrypted files for years now and I'm up to 80TB. i think its more than reasonable to pay them for that type of service and be slightly above board (the account type i have says i need a minimum of 5 people but its just me).
- www_harka_com 4y agoWhich service is that? Doesn't Workspace allow 1TB?
- flatiron 4y agohttps://workspace.google.com/pricing.html https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html Enterprise is $20 (for me at least)
- gekoxyz 4y agohow do you manage the encryption/decryption?
- willmorrison 4y agoOne option is Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/ https://cryptomator.org/
- trvz 4y agohttps://rclone.org/crypt/ https://rclone.org/crypt/
- baal80spam 4y agoLove rclone!
- flatiron 4y agoI use Rclone but sadly started this process before it supported crypt so I use encfs
- ranting-moth 4y agoBorg backup
- coldblues 4y agoThat doesn't seem to be the case anymore. You have to pay for all the users to get the benefit of unlimited storage.
- nimbius 4y agoBold of you to assume hn hasn't fully convinced me to abandon everything but maps ;) The 4x size increase is my biggest concern...too bloaty.
- yootyootr 4y agoDon't forget that YouTube compresses videos, so the extra filesize makes the videos resistant to that destructive process.
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- DonHopkins 4y agoThe downside of using YouTube for backups is that the comments on your backups are so toxic.