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by crankylinuxuser 2567 days ago
It's yet again that the ToS is hidden crap that goes against the direct things, like "Backups".

Sure the ToS needs legalese crap for the lawyers, but a plain version also needs to be made. I'm certainly no lawyer, and nor are most people.

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It’s not really hidden and they do have an easy to read non-lawyer summary underneath the part I quoted

> In other words, we trust that you’ll be responsible and back up your own data. Things happen!

It doesn't take a college degree, in law or otherwise, to understand that data in one place - whether that's physically or under the umbrella of a single service provider - is subject to unpredictable, unexpected, total loss.