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    • starman@programming.devEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      It’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol

    • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      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.zoneEnglish
        82·
        1 year ago

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

        • kereshnull@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          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 🙈

    • toasteranimation@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      it’s not the storage space to hold the data that’s the problem, that’s cheap in itself: it’s the process of providing quick, global access to said data that costs too much

      • CataclysmZA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        They probably looked at Facebook’s latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.