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by Sephr 3956 days ago
Forced to use Google's cloud? Chrome OS supports local network drives[1], third party cloud providers (like Dropbox), SD cards, USB drives, etc. Nobody is forcing you to store stuff on Google Drive instead of any of those others options.

Yes, your Chrome OS settings are backed up to Google's cloud, but you can always set an encryption passphrase separate from your Google password so that Google can't decrypt your settings.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/file-system-for-sm...
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jfuhrman 3956 days ago
It's very telling that you get a 3 year free Google Drive storage account with 1TB or so storage instead of more local storage on Chromebooks.

The terms of service allow them to mine all your documents etc. for keywords once it's in their cloud. Otherwise why would they sell Chromebooks at or below cost.

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