Goodbye, Google! Part I
Jason S. Todd,
CAT FooD,
Nov 18, 2021
If you want to truly appreciate the meaning of 'lock-in' consider the case of an entire institution migrating its cloud presence from Google to Microsoft and the implication it has on individual employees. In theory almost everything will survive the transitions (except videos, which will become undead). As Jason S. Todd discovered, migrating personal content to a personal Google Drive account is a bad idea - not only might the migration never actually finish, it could eat large amounts of personal user space. However, as I've personally discovered, using Google Takeout to download resources is fraught with difficulties. My advice: always keep a local copy of any resource you create in the cloud, so that if an online service disappears, you're not left in a crisis situation.
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