they will appear as deleted, but they are not really deleted, they still have them in the database and still make money selling them 🤷‍♂️

That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue.

and how many people do the same thing you do? they don't really care about 1% of dedicated users...

well that would be fucked up for sure. are you suggesting any existing program works like that, or are just speculating what if?

it is not helping him now, so at least he will be familiar with that feeling 😂

no malicious update can force you to generate a text and file it in court as your own work.

isn't any gift received by the president property of the government? or so i gathered from watching the west wing 😆

when did you last check where your flash 8 installer is?

yeah, the funny and sad thing here is, that there are people in the world for whom "locally" means "in my phone". 🤷‍♂️

I never really liked Google, but their whole thing was supposed to be that you never needed to worry about backups.

no it wasn't. no sane person ever told you that. everyone always knew situation like the one described here will come sooner or later.

google might have told you so, but it is of similar value to when tobacco company tells you that smoking is healthy and to please continue smoking (and giving us money).

they’ve decided to screw people over who relied on their drive and office suite.

these people are not the customers. i will repeat that, because this part is really important - THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE CUSTOMERS.

when you don't pay for the service, you are not the customer, you are the merchandise that is being sold. and you are treated like one. when you are selling screwdrivers and one of them fall of the shelf, you don't bother yourself thinking if it hurt.

This and that I got bitten, without warning or reason

oh there was a reason and most likely there was a warning, it is just that no one taught you to read the dog's body language and be aware of the warning.

Like, I was just going grocery shopping the other day and had an unmarked van behind me for what felt like an awkwardly long time. I immediately started formulating escape plans. I drove an extra long route to the store just to make sure I wasn’t being followed. Once I parked I sat in my car an extra few minutes to observe if any other suspicious vehicles also parked and if anybody got out. I made sure to message my wife that I parked, that I was on my way into the store, that I was 25%/50%/75% done getting items, that I was checking out, that I was back in the car and headed home.

These are not thoughts I should have to have. It sucks.

jesus fucking christ. i am sorry this is happening to you or anyone else.

I assume you mean one octillion of femtograms?