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I really hate snarky comments like these:

One whole gigabyte? Wow!

Oh good. Now Google can mine your documents to find more ways to blast your with advertising. Buh-bye privacy.

People really need to stop bitching about privacy and the like. Nobody is stopping you from building your own server backup system in your basement with as much space as you desire. If you use this technology Google has been secretly working on for who knows how long now, for FREE, you can fucking put up with ads or minor fees if you want more space. People feel so fucking entitled these days.

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No, quite the opposite. The more people value their privacy, the more pressure against invasive predatory practices and the better for all of us.

It's not a binary scale: Privacy or no progress. Services we use can respect our privacy, can be paid by subscription instead of paid by data mining and selling your whole life.

So "bitch" people and don't "fucking put up" with ads.

Everyone values their privacy.

You think Google feels any pressure from blog comments like that? Well you're wrong. It's pointless bickering - I've always disliked that about reading tech news. People who have no idea how Google even operates and the technology behind the products take for granted and who could never even write a solid business plan seem to love complaining about inane details and playing victim. I'm tired of reading it. Until you can prove Google is doing something wrong or unethical, take your free service and stop complaining. Or switch to another.

If you have criticism that can improve the product, that's different. But these are just childish whines that don't accomplish anything. If Google is overstepping some privacy line, prove it and get them some bad press, like what recently happened with Path mining peoples' contacts. But Google are not malicious predators, and nobody is forcing anybody to use their products, so people need to stop being so melodramatic.

My antivirus (that I pay for) is scanning all my personal photos. And my firewall is sniffing every packet that is going there.

Since they are already "intruding" into my "private" life, I won't mind if they show advertisements to me, if at the end they make the antivirus and firewalls free.

I think google is doing nothing different.

Agreed. All of these privacy complaints seem very overstated and melodramatic.

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