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arrow-up11.01Kexternal-linkReddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accountsmashable.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square165fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: RedditMigration@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.worlddach@feddit.detechnology@beehaw.orgsnoocalypse@lemmy.mlreddit@lemmy.worldreddit@lemmy.mlglobalnews@lemmy.zip
minus-squarekereshnull@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 year agoSmells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
minus-squarestarman@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoIt’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol
minus-squareCloudless ☼@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 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-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-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHeo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.
minus-squaretoasteranimation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 year agoerror loading comment
minus-squareCataclysmZA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 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-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoIt’s called doing the Elon. Or “musking”
minus-squareCabrio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoMusking: the act of becoming an ouroboros of shit producing self consumption.
minus-squarebluness@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHow a about “coming in and stinking up the place”?
minus-squareGamey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWe have to email dictionaries till they add that!
Smells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
It’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol
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.
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You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been “deleted” accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈
Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.
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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 called doing the Elon. Or “musking”
Musking: the act of becoming an ouroboros of shit producing self consumption.
How a about “coming in and stinking up the place”?
We have to email dictionaries till they add that!