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Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by carabiner »

prox wrote: post #29
hereforphone wrote: post #24

Tenuously related: Wikipedia articles referencing less than desirable historical figures (e.g. Nazis) are reportedly being deleted en masse.

Citation needed?

https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na...

There have been a lot of WW2 fanboys who have been writing fawning articles about nazis who won a medal or two and were secretly, actually anti-Hitler the whole time. The reality, as far as documented, is that most of these were run of the mill soldiers without any known tendencies to be treasonous in wartime. She's been finding most of the heroics to be bullshit, and the real soldiers to be nobodies, and hence having the articles deleted per WP non-notable policy.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by foxpurple »

kipchak wrote: post #79

Looking at pricing for Google One to compare it with a Synology, I noticed my account doesn't seem to have the option for the higher tiers of storage such as the 5TB or 10TB that should be an option, instead 2TB is the highest. Have these plans gone away recently, or is this perhaps an account issue? I see articles mentioning them this month.

Over 2TB is hidden behind an expanding button. They went up to 10TB iirc.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by hypothesis »

shoto_io wrote: post #83
ecshafer wrote: post #2

I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…

I recently decided against G Drive and for office.com for our tiny startup. One reason being the unreliable customer support often mentioned here on HN. I hope MS customer support is better…

Ironically, someone recently attributed “hope is not a strategy” to Google’s engineering…

I definitely understand the sentiment and curious if you researched options before making this switch?

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by npteljes »

dudus wrote: post #42
slownews45 wrote: post #23

I'm on the AWS cloud. I've never had a problem like this. I pay the $100 / month for the basic AWS support plan. Even store side AWS has done reasonably OK by me (except for all the crap listings in their storefront - wish they'd fix that). By this I mean any problem I've had has been fixed. So at least Amazon has SOME humans still in the loop handling AWS support tickets and Amazon store calls.

I'm on Google Cloud and Google Drive and have never had a problem like that either. I have Google One and it gives me access to humans when needed for chat, email and phone support. I pay way less than $100/month My evidence is as good as yours. Anecdotal. I think the real lesson here is that you should backup your data. Simple as that. The guy losing access to their Google account today is at fault just like the guy…

>I think the real lesson here is that you should backup your data. Simple as that.

It really is as simple as that. People who have their only hard drive die experience the same. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by CydeWeys »

gorwell wrote: post #48
croes wrote: post #16

How many times does that have to happen before people realize there is no cloud, only other people's computers. The data that is stored there is no longer yours, just as thanks to Apple and Co. your hardware no longer really belongs to you, but you only enjoy a temporary right of use. It will be interesting to see when hardly anything remains of an entire generation because everything comes from the cloud: Photos, vi…

This is why I've stopped buying books on kindle. It gives Amazon the power to censor your book library, and it would not surprise me at all if we see them exercise that power soon.

Amazon banned me (for something completely unrelated to Kindle books), and I lost access to everything on Kindle as a result. It's a good thing I hadn't spent much money there, and obviously I'm not buying any ebooks going forward.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by andrekandre »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #45
whymauri wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto. And when I felt it was near end-of-life, I just moved it over to a more stable SSD. I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive externally and wipe it (for the security of my Google account). I mean, who knows what will trigger the deletion of your Google account these days... I guess the storage I pay for is just for e-mails.

Incidentally, I’ve had more SSDs fail - or misbehave - on me than spinning-rust drives now. And I don’t just mean cheap SSDs either, but an Intel Optane 905p I own results in hundreds of PCI Express bus errors every minute when plugged-in to any ASUS motherboard I own, while a SATA Intel 530 woke-up one day completely unreadable. And throw-in a couple of Samsung SSD failures too. It’s enough to make me anxious betwee…

thats interesting, its been the exact opposite for me...

though the ssds i use are for backup and arent used very often for writing... i wonder if that makes a difference?

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by amelius »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #95
ecshafer wrote: post #2

I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…

To Google, this is not unfortunate, this is planned. They truly do not give a single shit about you. Consume content and shut up is exactly what they want you to do.

Exactly, it doesn't matter if the customer has a problem, they will fix it when it becomes a problem for them.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by LivelyTortoise »

bserge wrote: post #89
bserge wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are the worst pirates I've ever heard of.

Ah, but you have heard of them! (gotta do everything myself, but I can go to sleep now :D)

If it makes you feel better, I immediately spoke this line in my head after reading your post :-)

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by jhart99 »

lucasverra wrote: post #34
rrdharan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google One, and Google Workspaces both offer paid support plans that cover Google Drive.

I pay for Google one since approx 24 months and have had surprisingly decent phone support with less than 3 clicks. PS: I tend to avoid google services, but google workplace is too damn superior

This has also been my experience. Google One will get you to the right person to get things fixed. I had a billing issue that they were able to resolve in under 24 hours. But I could see the problem if your account gets banned that has the Google One on it... Would be hard to submit a request when you can't log in.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by Y_Y »

Spooky23 wrote: post #72
scohesc wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's honestly really scary and I never thought of that.

I worked as an intern for an archive digitizing old letters among other things. Many aspects of key historical figures are available — letters, etc. You know what they were thinking because you can read some of their personal thoughts. In this day and age, if you’re lucky emails exist, but due to discovery, etc many entities just purge everything. Bad news, this era will be a black hole for future generations to unde…

Maybe Google's history department will make some money from their monopoly on the primary sources.
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