• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Maybe they’ll help him retrieve the data. Presumably the servers haven’t been used for something else yet. Then again maybe not. When you control how most people get their news who cares if one reporter gets mad?

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          11 months ago

          But again why would Google care? They lobby like everyone else, and half the politicians don’t understand what cloud storage is. If no laws tell them they have to do something they won’t unless it benefits them.

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            Google cares whether people pay for and use their services. And if enough people view their products as unreliable beta software, they’re going to be less willing to use them. Especially if they have anything of importance on Google’s hardware.

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            That percent probably nets them more profit than all the free accounts combined. What Google is doing is short sighted and it is going to hurt them.