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That's great. I don't want my information stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold around without me knowing what's going on.

Oddly enough, you're frustrated about "degraded UX", but for several years now - UX has been terrible with annoying popups asking you for your email, advertisement-ridden websites that attracts traffic via well-crafted titles while the content is something to be desired...

Don't be a peon. But if you decide you want to be one, think about your other fellow humans - maybe they don't want to be peons.

I find it fascinating how people blame the solution while it's the symptom that bothers them and they don't even notice the disease.

GDPR isn't only related to internet services. I received a phone call today from my mobile operator, they got bought by a larger company and it was a sales call. However, they were asking to speak to person in charge in regards to company-wide mobile subscription and services - we use none.

What was disturbing is that I was contacted on my private phone number in regards to a sales call related to the company I work at.

The details I left when buying their mobile service (which was 20 years ago) don't contain where I work at. I didn't work at all at the time, but I kept paying for the service.

I didn't update my account details so I found it a huge surprise when they knew exactly who to call and on what number.

Being a EU citizen, I went GDPR on them. I don't want people to call my personal number and disturb me in my own free time with sales calls in regards to my company. How did they get my details? Who authorized them to contact me? I've many questions and luckily - now I have legal backing when asking them to anonymize my data.

> Maybe other people making these decisions aren't idiots

Nice joke, I liked it! :)

How's that relevant? You're neither lead architect nor does your employment at MySQL / Oracle mean anything. Many incapable developers score positions at big companies. Without facts, maths and measurement you can be Linus Torvalds for all I care. The article at the URL provided is simply marketing ploy. I'm experienced enough to notice what's wrong with the comparison, but I won't take that article apart to prove anything. If you believe Mongo is a product that helps you - perfect. Now, if you're thinking you'll convince me that it's great by berating another great product - well, that raises a red flag. Who says I've to use a single software vendor anyway?

So what you're saying that if I find something on google, it's undoubtedly true and I should blindly believe it? For every one of those use cases, I can provide a counter-argument. And there are many more who can do the same.

You're aware that the vendor will post gospel about their product on their own website? I'm not using Postgres, I use MySQL, but I can assert with 100% certainty that most of the "comparison" on that URL is just marketing bullshit. You're a prime example that this new-age bullshit works and that's what's worrying.

I've been using MySQL 5.7 since its release in production. I used to store JSON data in a blob, but when they released JSON support - I just couldn't wait to use it. It's working really, really good. JSON support solves a ton of problems we used to have, and we used EAV model to tackle those problems (I won't get into details, the discussion will go the other way). I deal with a few hundred MySQL deployments ranging from 1GB dataset size to several terabytes, with multimaster and MySQL cluster setup to in-app handled sharding. There are several notable pieces of software that never caused any problems in our use scenario, and MySQL is one of them. The other is nginx. Can't really remember the third. I often wondered why anyone would use MongoDB or similar, but I always keep forgetting that developers are usually inexperienced hipsters who are looking for magic unicorn to solve their lack of knowledge / experience.