Don’t use services that track all your activity down. It should be pretty obvious as to why.

This doesn’t really apply here.

Sure, but if I can dodge one by simply switching email hosts, why not?

How the uptime with Tuta these days? Was hearing some negative reviews about extended outages a while back.

I want to leave Proton, but I fear for the day I need a 2FA code and I can’t get it.

That’s nice. Just exposing your dishonesty. Move along.

I’ll say this.

When I weigh the choice of handing over my personal videos to a company that is explicitly and actively going to use them to:

• train and improve their massive corporate AI tools
• develop their targeted ad platform (which is their real product)
• build a comprehensive profile about me and my family

Or

Putting a NAS at a friends house, or paying a couple bucks a month for some block storage.

I end up preferring the second set of options. It’s fine if you don’t, but don’t pretend you have no idea that your personal videos and information are valuable to Google.

Because, frankly, I don’t think you’re being honest.

Do you really not know how Google’s business model works, or are you playing dumb?

Is money is the only thing about yourself that you ascribe value to?

Nope. The admin of sh.itjust.works lets you use their storage for free. Google does not.

There are things that are free, Youtube is not one of them.

What other platform can I use as cloud storage for video files for free?

None. YouTube included.

And honestly even if it did serve it’s actual purpose, the cumulative power consumption would still be a point of debate.

Yeah, but at that point you’d have to consider it against how much power the traditional banking system uses.

So is the internet.

So can the AI

You can sue for anything.

In addition to the education you got below, Trump wants to apply a 20% tarrif across the board.

Not even remotely the same as keeping existing ones.

Don’t “both sides” this issue.