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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by levosmetalo on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:51AM (#25067823)
If you have an agreement with someone to give you a free beer for life, in exchange for your personal data, they should be allowed to back up? After already extracting all value for your data?

What kind of entitlement is this?

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Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June... by virgilp on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:25AM (#25068039)
It was not a "free beer for life", but "free beer in exchange for personal data". They stop providing the beer, you stop providing the data (new photos). Seems fairly reasonable.

Turn it the other way around... would you find it reasonable to be obliged to continue to share your data for as long as they provide you with free beer? Or can you withdraw from the agreement?

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