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It baffles me how we got from "tracking is creepy" to "please track all I do on your site" in ~10 years. Your watch history should be stored by your browser on

• sroerick 12y ago
  I agree with you. My watch history is currently in the hands of Google. I'm trying to copy it so that I have it saved locally.
• thegeomaster 12y ago
  A week ago, I had my phone forcefully smashed into a floor. The screen ended up completely dead, but fortunately, the phone worked, and the remote debugging option was on, so I was able to pull all the data on it via ADB. But if the motherboard or some other vital had component died, I would've beem locked out of my data. It's at times like this I'm glad that Google Keep syncs my notes to their servers, and that Viber stores my contacts' phone numbers remotely. If it hadn't been for them and my phone, say, fell in water and completely broke, I'd have lost all of that. Same argument for a hard drive death. In 2004 or so, we were expected to live with that risk. But I don't think we should have to now. Witnessing the explosion of the "cloud" buzzword everywhere, you'd think everyone in the world has convenient access to their own private space "in the cloud" (or, as those soooo-2000s people would say, "on the Internet"). And we do have access to such space, but for the most part, not quite so for the "private" thing. Of course, ideally, I'd like to generate random keys, keep safe local backups of them and then sync encrypted data to remote servers. But I don't think the companies are eager to accept that as they probably owe a lot of their statistics and targeted advertising opportunities to big-scale mining of that plaintext data we provide them in exchange for convenience.