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I'm still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.

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[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I will never trust Google for anything since they killed off Google Plus. Getting rid of "don't be evil" as their corporate motto was a huge giveaway.

[–] BricksDont@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I use Google Fi for my cell service and have loved it, but them killing off or selling so many of their products has me real nervous over here...

[–] TheNH813@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they tend to be like that.... have dumped quite a few great services. Google+ was my favorite place until it was gonne. I was mostly using Reddit afterwards, and given current circumstances, I'm jumping at alternatives immediately. I at least want to be able to access them and know how they feel.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Don't be evil is still in one of their slogans or whatever you wanna call it but it's just at the end like "and as always don't be evil."

[–] omarciddo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, ain’t that the truth. I really gotta make a point to get a backup of all my photos from Google Photos onto a hard drive one of these days. Problem is, Google Takeout batches only last about a week or so and I have a very hefty amount of data to get out. The alternative is to download it month by month, year by year, which I’m not looking forward to doing at all.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I did exactly that. And ever since then, I've been backing up my full uncompressed photographs onto several duplicate hard drives and flash drives. Plus my videos, of course. I really should set up a server so I could do all that automatically, but I don't really know how and don't have the energy to figure it out.