grenran

You do know that they can probably get access to your data through an internal backdoor if they really wanted to right?

There's no way that Google would actually use this service.

It's intern season

/r/gatekeeping

Hell you could even create backdated fake commits if you wanted to.

https://github.com/tickelton/ghdecoy

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

$ whois $(dig +short gitlab.com A) | grep OrgName

OrgName: Microsoft Corporation

Of course they can, but this decision is based mostly on money. Most of the time, people would just pick the company that would offer them more.

Microsoft doesn't have the time or resources to give a fuck about yours or other's shitty private repos. Besides, if they really wanted to compete, they would just utilise their massive engineering team to extinguish the competition.

Microsoft is not gonna give a fuck about your shitty little repos or anyones for that matter. What makes you think they are gonna put time and effort into mining people's code?

So what does this imply exactly?

So wait, so instead of giving your email address, you're giving another email address? That's just like email addresses with extra steps.