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  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

      • kereshnull@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈