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Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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No matter their actual costs to provide the service, I'm struggling to see why they should not immediately delete all of your stored files upon cancellation of the storage service. They are a European company, so you are the customer, not the product and recipient of subsidies. They use less manipulation and dark patterns than an equivalent American company. You pay, you get service. You don't pay, you don't get serv…

> you are the customer, not the product and recipient of subsidies They also do advertisement (promoted tracks and audio ads) but this is irrelevant to my point, what I described applies regardless, including the fact that heavy users of the unlimited plan and free users definitely receive subsidies, both from light users and from ad revenue of the platform. > You pay, you get service. You don't pay, you don't get se…

Sounds like they will warn you about your storage limit for a while, so you can choose which data to delete to be under the limit, before deleting your data at random to force you under the limit. Quite reasonable.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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> you are the customer, not the product and recipient of subsidies They also do advertisement (promoted tracks and audio ads) but this is irrelevant to my point, what I described applies regardless, including the fact that heavy users of the unlimited plan and free users definitely receive subsidies, both from light users and from ad revenue of the platform. > You pay, you get service. You don't pay, you don't get se…

Sounds like they will warn you about your storage limit for a while, so you can choose which data to delete to be under the limit, before deleting your data at random to force you under the limit. Quite reasonable.

You mean Apple? I don’t think they actually delete any minor excess data that may occur incidentally due to race condition or eventual consistency. Just if you actually downgrade, they do… After a month or so, during which you can still download.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Isn't everyone on YouTube or Bandcamp now for this use case?

YouTube is the domain of Satan, also the name is hilarious - you tube? really? I don't tube thaanks

It's YouTube, not MeTube, so you can use it as you want and I'll stay away.
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