[1/2] https://locusmag.com/2024/07/cory-doctorow-unpersoned/
Never rely on Google to preserve data that you have entrusted to it. Whatever sort of data it is, if you would be sad if it were lost, do not depend on Google! Google has been known to delete all of a person's accounts and all of per data, permanently and irremediably. (I am curious whether other companies are any better in handling such situations, but I have no information about that as of now.) My refusal to run nonfree
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