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Wait until step 2, which I experienced recently: > You're low on disk space. Storage Sense is freeing up space on your PC to help it run its best. Synced fil

Wait until step 2, which I experienced recently: > You're low on disk space. Storage Sense is freeing up space on your PC to help it run its best. Synced files that haven't been used recently will become cloud-only. All of my family and friends get tricked by tactics like this. None of my family wants to use OneDrive or the cloud storage from Google / Apple for photos, etc., but their data always ends up synced to these nasty services. How is it not considered predatory? Fine them a gazillion dollars and make the CEOs smash rocks with a children's hammer for the rest of their lives. Edit: And how is that a "backup"? They're moving my files to their servers eventually. That's not a backup. That's theft.

theandrewbailey 2y ago
One day, you try to login, and there's a message: "You've violated our terms of service and we've cancelled your account." You did nothing, and now it's all gone!
- yard2010 2y ago
  I had this weird feeling but with my google account. It's a digital lifetime that can be just deleted (ofc, not hard delete but I still won't be able to access it) in an instant. Luckily, google gives you the option to get all your data. So I asked for a download using Google Takeout, and as you might guess it's well hidden and makes it really hard to use - the backups can take days to be ready and I couldn't download the 150gb result in the first 5 tries, so I had to start all over (that's just random plain evil, as I didn't download 10mb even in those poor tries). But once I got it I felt safer. At least I would be able to access my mail in such an event. Also, it's a really sobering experience. I went through the rabbi hole of checking every file and folder there. I wondered, what youtube video did I watch on 7.8.2014 at 3am? This left me feeling empty realizing they kept every fart I did in the last 20 years. I know it's like this and everybody does that, but skimming through the data made it real. Like you know texting and driving is dangerous but when you see someone loses his life to this shit.. It's different.
_DeadFred_ 2y ago
You have to report it to the FTC. The FTC only works when people give them reports to initiate investigations. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
- yard2010 2y ago
  Haha I stopped reading after "the FTC only works.." The system is part of the problem not part of the solution.
  - _DeadFred_ 2y ago
    Haha the corporations have programmed you well. Go re-write your own stack from the ground up to somehow end up with perfect social constructs, meanwhile I'll take advantage of the imperfect tools that can actually accomplish something today in the real world and not fall for the bs that I should scrap the 'good' because it's not 'perfect'.

theandrewbailey 2y ago

One day, you try to login, and there's a message: "You've violated our terms of service and we've cancelled your account." You did nothing, and now it's all gone!

yard2010 2y ago
I had this weird feeling but with my google account. It's a digital lifetime that can be just deleted (ofc, not hard delete but I still won't be able to access it) in an instant. Luckily, google gives you the option to get all your data. So I asked for a download using Google Takeout, and as you might guess it's well hidden and makes it really hard to use - the backups can take days to be ready and I couldn't download the 150gb result in the first 5 tries, so I had to start all over (that's just random plain evil, as I didn't download 10mb even in those poor tries). But once I got it I felt safer. At least I would be able to access my mail in such an event. Also, it's a really sobering experience. I went through the rabbi hole of checking every file and folder there. I wondered, what youtube video did I watch on 7.8.2014 at 3am? This left me feeling empty realizing they kept every fart I did in the last 20 years. I know it's like this and everybody does that, but skimming through the data made it real. Like you know texting and driving is dangerous but when you see someone loses his life to this shit.. It's different.

_DeadFred_ 2y ago

You have to report it to the FTC. The FTC only works when people give them reports to initiate investigations. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

yard2010 2y ago
Haha I stopped reading after "the FTC only works.." The system is part of the problem not part of the solution.
- _DeadFred_ 2y ago
  Haha the corporations have programmed you well. Go re-write your own stack from the ground up to somehow end up with perfect social constructs, meanwhile I'll take advantage of the imperfect tools that can actually accomplish something today in the real world and not fall for the bs that I should scrap the 'good' because it's not 'perfect'.