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minus-squarekereshnull@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoSmells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
minus-squareCloudless ☼@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoText takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs. I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHeo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.
minus-squarekereshnull@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈
minus-squaretoasteranimation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoerror loading comment
minus-squareCataclysmZA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey probably looked at Facebook’s latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.
minus-squarestarman@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol
Smells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.
I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.
You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈
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They probably looked at Facebook’s latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.
It’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol