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GDPR specifies the right to data-portability. In Europe services have to provide data in a machine readable, commonly used format for export.
Thank god for GDPR. Shame on me for thinking that this kind of regulation was dumb
This terrifies me. I recently signed up for Google One just to mitigate the lack of support if I were to lose access to my account. Perhaps the other thing to do is not comment using my account, which feels very wrong. All of the other options have drawbacks too. With Fastmail or another provider, you're trusting another corp. Setting up your own involves a bunch of work and difficult to solve drawbacks like spam fil…
You're trusting another corp that only handles your email. Not your photos, videos, notes, phones, thermostats, doorbells(?), security cameras, speakers, TVs, youtube income/career...
China has a state issued social credit score. We have a social credit score via megacorps.
Some are "business-ending" serious, while others may be relatively frivolous and replaceable (like Calendar).
That said, some of the linkages can make "frivolous" services more important (like using Calendar to link business appointments, documents, and emails).
So, when a Google account gets nuked for a problem in one of the services, they all go into the toilet.
fellow chromebook users: If you had a Chromebook, and Google locked your account. Does the scenario described in the article imply that you can no longer can log into your own laptop?
A Chromebook isn't your own laptop. It's a lease from Google for 0-6 years, after which they effectively disable it. You can look up when your lease ends here: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en If this scenario happens, you can think of it as Google terminating the lease early. No biggie.
This article finally prompted me to do what I should've done a long time ago, which is to create a Fastmail account and begin importing my Gmail into it. I've seen this story far too many times, and no longer will I say "yeah but it'll never happen to me". Setting up the import was insanely easy, and my Fastmail account is now configured to enable me to send using my Gmail address from directly within Fastmail. Plus…
1. Entire family on @gmail 2. All Android phones setup to send photos to a shared family@google account so no one needs to 'send me those pictures from Anon's birthday' - it's all getting sent into the same account.
I'm not sure how to seamlessly pull off #2 without trying to lift and move the entire family over to iPhone's or something like that.
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what happens tho to all your google authenticator linked stuff?
People need to stop calling this "google authenticator". It's called TOTP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password... It's an open standard, RFC 6238: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238 Calling it "google authenticator" is like saying "I'm going to GMail that document to you".
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It's still more work and risk of messing it up than using a cloud service.
More work, yes. That’s pretty much the selling point of Google services: We can fuck you over, but you have less work if we don’t.
This is genuinely scary. Photos, Yale locks, Fi, WiFi and Nest thermostat can all be poof gone because I made a silly YouTube comment? How is this not regulated? Google photos also 'helpfully' offers to delete your uploaded photos with 'some guarantee'!!! If this isn't an indication of a giant shitty monopoly that doesn't care about its customers at all, I don't what is. They have some AI ML fucking crap but can't fi…
If you are a “customer”. How many people pay for google services? I know it’s kind of jerky but I still agree that if you aren’t paying for the service, you have no leg to complain about it.
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That is why I want something like Time Capsule for our Smartphone ( iOS or Android ). >Roughley lost data including emails, photos, documents and diagrams that he had developed for his work. "My account and all its data is gone," he said. Imagine all your photos were in Google Photos and you cant get it any more because you have somehow violated their policy? All the beautiful memories of your boy or daughter when th…
This is why i have setup one of my linux servers to automatically download all photos and videos from my shared google photo albums each night. This allows me and my wife to easily share photos of our daughter with each other, as well as have a backup of everything we have locally on my NAS. Next step is to sync this of to several other storage places in case of cryptolocker or the NAS dies.