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'Google Drive -> MEGA' move
5 years ago
it was brought to my attention that people at Google might have problem with NSFW stuff stored on their 'google drive' being shared with others.
thus i'll be moving my stuff from Google Drive to MEGA as an alternative, and for a while links on my posts will be unusable (i'll try to re-link most of them at some point).
it apparently was in their ToS for a long time - but damn... - who read though entire ToS of Google or MS Windows or Amazon? - stuff is 'un-read-though-able', by design mind you: it's so, so they sneak funny stuff, eg.: if due to Windows error, your PC will catch fire and burn down your house down - do you know what MS will owe you? - new OEM licence of Windows! - that is in ToS of OS you're using (on >90% you're using) .
https://support.google.com/photos/t.....17111236?hl=en
i'll also take an opportunity to give my opinion on this:
it's annoying... folks at Google, FB, Twitter, etc.: they will spy on you in every way possible, breaking law in process sometimes- yet on every possible turn when someone could possibly complain about their service, or part of it - they'll ditch it all together, instead trying to stand by it, or employing any kind of action, which might solve problem - nah - it's easier (and cheaper) to throw it away all together.
what i'm rambling on are recurring 'weird moves' made by big companies like Google or Disney etc. where they will do weird shit: like in cartoon 'Gravity Falls' cutting out fish from fez of one of main characters, or sh*tshow that was pulled by Tumblr, or recent moves by Patreon to disallow NSFW creators founding, or rampant de-monitazation on YouTube, or Riot Games removing cigar from characters splash-art - they are all 'caused by desperate want of avoiding any lawsuit, or even potential lawsuit. And with combination of how much money those companies have - i find this fear disgusting.
And you can solve that shit Google - eg. just give 'NSFW' toggle - if you're afraid of eg.: pedophiles sharing stuff via their google drives - just deploy freakin' neural net trained to search for pedo shit and send it to review or if it's 98% match: send it to police straight away, god damn it.
and don't BS me that Google can't afford that: Google is 300 billion usd company - owned by 900 billion usd company 'Alphabet'* - 3rd in the world, after Apple and Amazon - fuckers have more sway than many countries - they can afford it - line that 'they barely scrape by to survive off ad-revenue' is BS.
*(Polands GPD is like '500 billion usd'-ish = for scale)
Also: i don't mind being spied to certain extent, in exchange for free mail, and web-search-engine - that is somewhat fair exchange. What pisses me off is Microsoft with its 150 usd OS, and 50 usd 'Office' - and they still spy on you like there is no tomorrow... GO LINUX PEOPLE! GO LINUX! *i'm done*
thus i'll be moving my stuff from Google Drive to MEGA as an alternative, and for a while links on my posts will be unusable (i'll try to re-link most of them at some point).
it apparently was in their ToS for a long time - but damn... - who read though entire ToS of Google or MS Windows or Amazon? - stuff is 'un-read-though-able', by design mind you: it's so, so they sneak funny stuff, eg.: if due to Windows error, your PC will catch fire and burn down your house down - do you know what MS will owe you? - new OEM licence of Windows! - that is in ToS of OS you're using (on >90% you're using) .
https://support.google.com/photos/t.....17111236?hl=en
i'll also take an opportunity to give my opinion on this:
it's annoying... folks at Google, FB, Twitter, etc.: they will spy on you in every way possible, breaking law in process sometimes- yet on every possible turn when someone could possibly complain about their service, or part of it - they'll ditch it all together, instead trying to stand by it, or employing any kind of action, which might solve problem - nah - it's easier (and cheaper) to throw it away all together.
what i'm rambling on are recurring 'weird moves' made by big companies like Google or Disney etc. where they will do weird shit: like in cartoon 'Gravity Falls' cutting out fish from fez of one of main characters, or sh*tshow that was pulled by Tumblr, or recent moves by Patreon to disallow NSFW creators founding, or rampant de-monitazation on YouTube, or Riot Games removing cigar from characters splash-art - they are all 'caused by desperate want of avoiding any lawsuit, or even potential lawsuit. And with combination of how much money those companies have - i find this fear disgusting.
And you can solve that shit Google - eg. just give 'NSFW' toggle - if you're afraid of eg.: pedophiles sharing stuff via their google drives - just deploy freakin' neural net trained to search for pedo shit and send it to review or if it's 98% match: send it to police straight away, god damn it.
and don't BS me that Google can't afford that: Google is 300 billion usd company - owned by 900 billion usd company 'Alphabet'* - 3rd in the world, after Apple and Amazon - fuckers have more sway than many countries - they can afford it - line that 'they barely scrape by to survive off ad-revenue' is BS.
*(Polands GPD is like '500 billion usd'-ish = for scale)
Also: i don't mind being spied to certain extent, in exchange for free mail, and web-search-engine - that is somewhat fair exchange. What pisses me off is Microsoft with its 150 usd OS, and 50 usd 'Office' - and they still spy on you like there is no tomorrow... GO LINUX PEOPLE! GO LINUX! *i'm done*
Remember when google fired one of their programmers when he spoke out against racist anti-equality bullshit, because it had upset some feminists?
doesn't surprise me one bit
so ya - I can see why you'd wanna move your online stash to mega. I just keep my filth on my HD locally, don't see much of a reason to share it
i'd say that people have right to complain - unfortunately even about dumb stuff - but others have also right to point out: 'Your complaint is completely dumb'.
But stuff i was talking about ages back to way before terms like SJW were a thing: i mean, there is this thing, where you have disclaimer 'coffee is hot' - god damn it - ofc it is. Due to how brew, we call coffee, is made: fresh coffee will be hot - that is part of common knowledge - you shouldn't need to disclaim.
so i wouldn't be pissed that 'SJW' are screaming - for better or worse: that is their right - i'd be angry for that people cave in to them, and thus giving them more spotlight - if people didn't do that, this fad would die down long time ago, and sensible people might be heard (without this noise around them).
and you know: in my case, i need way to share this stuff ('work in progress images' with commissioners etc.)
but do keep in mind that a lot of SJWs think that porn is bad because dat evil male gaze, and want nobody to be able to see, share or make the stuff - that was sort of how I figured your work was being impacted. Google shouldn't really care what we're using google drive for: they've made it availiable for everyone, that's it.
The gross ambiguity of obscenity laws in most US states also poses a unknown liability for companies.