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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Putting your data in a megacorp basket means it'll be treated primarily with consideration towards their legal liability first, other megacorps second, and you third or fourth.


If the megacorps buy up the best competitors, there's not much chance left for people, just use them.


It's true to some extent, but in the file storage space it's not really applicable. There are hundreds of competitors, and I'm not even sure if any file storage providers got bought up by "megacorps".


Not really. I'm using all parts of Google suite together as they are well integrated with every device I have and eachother. I am using Adobe cloud for photos instead of Google photos for example, and even there I quite often feel the difference in integration with the Android operating system.


Adobe software is especially annoying. There are probably five or six adobe launch daemons running in the shadows on my Mac as we speak and it's unclear if when I want to uninstall that their uninstaller will actually purge them all (in my experience, no), or I'm going to have to write a script to collect anything with adobe in the name and rm -rf. Microsoft is bad with this too on Mac at least. I tried killing a microsoft autoupdate daemon and I ended up getting a system notification like three times a day about it until I relented and reinstalled it.




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