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Comment by Gigachad | Hacker News Reader

You can easily get your data out frequently from here https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

Encrypted data is too much of a pain because it breaks cross platform integrations. I mostly upload files via my ipad and phone which are unable to encrypt the data. It also prevents you from previewing things without downloading the full file first.

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It is a pain to use IMO.

You get a mail sometime in the future and after receiving it you have to turn around and download multiple chunks, log in for each of them and do it quickly before they disappear.

Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.

mega.nz somehow managed to do this all encrypted. Dunno if its "NH approved encryption" also dont advice on using that service it has a bad reputation. Nonetheless it seems like it would technically be possible to have large amount encrypted files without losing the ability to handle single files and download whole folders as archive.

None of that is a problem is you only use the google cloud as a backup and not as a the place to work on/with the data directly. It simply isn't save to use for anything other than as an additional backup.

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