You make a funny point. killedbygoogle.com
But GMail isn’t going anywhere. There are surely very few more valuable places to harvest user data than reading all their emails.
Still big agree. Have a backup. Don’t trust corporations.
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T156@lemmy.world 11 months agoIt’s also Google. You probably shouldn’t put anything on it that you’re not expecting to go away in a few years when the service shuts down.
At the very least, have a spare copy somewhere that isn’t likely to get wiped out.
theherk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mail likely isn’t going anywhere. A lot of corporations rely on Google workspace.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The never just deleted data without a plan for you to download it. Your photos aren’t going anywhere. If by some curve Google goes out of business you’ll have ample time to download them.
Unless your saving your own shit on multiple disks and putting copies of shit in multiple places, Google photos is probably the safest spot on the planet for them.