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  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    2 years 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
      71·
      2 years ago

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

      • kereshnull@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

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