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...and even a backup service would delete your data if you stopped paying, right?

• Kadin 17y ago
  Their terms -- keeping your data around forever, just inaccessible to you, as long as you log in once every 90 days -- is actually pretty nice for a backup perspective. You could conceivably get a Pro account, upload tons of stuff, then let it lapse, logging in periodically to keep it active, and only paying the $25 to upgrade again if you need to recover something. I doubt this is what they have in mind, which is why I don't think for a minute that they ever seriously sold Flickr as a backup service. But you could do it. I wasn't a fan of Yahoo's takeover of Flickr (I would have much preferred Google, and Yahoo could have taken that pit of dreck called YouTube), but they have managed to keep their hands off of it for the most part since then. I'm pretty sure that the current business model predates the buyout, or at the least has been around for several years now.
  • sachinag 17y ago
    I don't get the preference for Yahoo as an acquirer over Google. Yahoo has repeatedly killed internal projects in favor of acquisitions - Google, for better or worse, has a substantial NIH mentality. Sure, Flickr and Delicious haven't really innovated since acquisition, but Yahoo's at least let them stay more-or-less intact (less charitably, Yahoo's let them stagnate).