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Mtinie·

Resolved.

https://mobile.twitter.com/carwinb/status/907778135957131265

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As always, the best way to get a big company to help you is to make it a public relations problem.

https://twitter.com/DeadPrecariat/status/907778635817521152

This person asks that she "demands answers."

Since when are beggars choosers? Google is free. Did we really expect a different behavior from them?

Free in the most obvious sense, but they still profit off of you.

When I checked a few years ago, Youtube was still not actually profitable. There's a reason it's owned by the company that spins off so much free cash it doesn't know what to do with it all, I guess.

Google's parent company, Alphabet is hugely profitable.

Google is beholden to advertisers. You are not a customer, even when you are one, you are still the product delivered to them. Using their services is a choice but I've opted out of everything but search, and I'd like to get off of that too.

Boggles my mind how people keep thinking Google is this benevolent entity hovering over us. It's a company, with balance sheets. Nothing more.

Time to move that data (or at least a copy of it) elsewhere.

>I hope for good. But, I honestly don't know.

I love how Google handles their customers. They just block/remove without any warning, don't respond when asked and reinstate if they have to without any apology or explanation.

ha ha. you said "customers".

I was a paying customer of theirs for a few years, using GDrive to back up my photos. I suspect many HN users are also Google customers. It is definitely a distinction worth making.

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