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Google is a solid behemoth, but they don't provide safekeeping for regular users.

Without recourse, they can lock you out of your account, or delete pieces of your data for umbrella reasons (copyright, csam, undisclosed)

That said, saving the stream as a video to youtube is a good idea because of redundancy.

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> Google is a solid behemoth

10 years ago, Google promised certain college alumni high storage limits forever. In the past 4 months, Google decreased the storage limits two times, and told users to reduce their GDrive use or have their emails deleted

Didn’t consider the AGI race would lead to the loss of digital archives owned by the few companies that could afford to keep those archives up for free

I have seen people upload petabytes worth of pirated content onto those student mail accounts. Most of it got purged after the limits were imposed.

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