[unethical_ban]

Sometimes, yes. And in each of those cases, the right and motivated person can produce a better product that institutions.

Personally, I self host services on IaaS (Vultr). At least then I have full ownership of my data, and it guarantees I'm running on open source software that can be modified for data extraction at any time.

[rabino]

I do the same. And some times it goes down and I'm busy so it stays down for a day. And I never find time to keep everything updated to the latest security patches, etc. Fun hobby, but I wouldn't trust that as my only repository of data.