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> Every normal person has content in Google , iCloud , OneDrive , Dropbox and maybe more. That’s 4+ single points of failure

It only means that the content is not valuable for them. I know people who created Google Account only because the phone required them to and they do not even remember the password or username, and do not use Gmail (why use email when there is Telegram). If they lose the phone, they would just probably make a new account.

If you were an investor or trader, managing millions of dollars, would you keep the only copy of critical information in a cloud? I don't think so if you are a reasonable person. Would you keep the only copy of a cryptowallet key in a cloud?

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Plenty of huge businesses keep all their critical data in the cloud. If they were banned from Microsoft 365 they would instantly go out of business.

> If they were banned from Microsoft 365 they would instantly go out of business.

Seeing how Microsoft is doing, they’re going to learn this lesson sooner or later.

Average users have no idea what of their information is in the cloud or not. Even if they did, they have no idea of the implications.

> If you were an investor or trader, managing millions of dollars, would you keep the only copy of critical information in a cloud?

I don't think the idea that they could lose access to their accounts occurs to most people. I've done enough business continuity and disaster recovery work with small business to be confident in saying it doesn't occur to small business owners. I'm not sure why individuals would be any different.

It's very hard to put yourself in the mindset of a non-technical person.

> I don't think the idea that they could lose access to their accounts occurs to most people.

"It just works" was practically a mantra for Steve Jobs, now we turn around and blame users for thinking that it will work

> I don't think the idea that they could lose access to their accounts occurs to most people

Most people do not store anything valuable in the cloud anyway. The only problem is that they won't be able to login into Windows if MS bans the account, and they won't be able to install apps if Google bans their account along with phone serial number.

Yes it happens constantly. I know many businesses who have their assets in the cloud .

Backup sounds nice and is necessary but is always out of date and recovery is totally impractical .

Many/most of the assets like indexes , references & creds can’t be reasonably backed up and recovered .

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