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by shaki-dora 2368 days ago
> With regards to being able to scrape your data or just get your data back from 3rd party's, I think that's a losing battle.

Both Google and Facebook have tools that allow you to export your data in both (usable) JSON and HTML.

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That's fine but how often do you export? How do you merge it with other exported data? Are you exporting your entire history every time? What about when Google/Facebook breaks their API or get rid of it?
That is why we are creating PrivicyPal -- to set a schedule to download and merge data from many sources and monitor over time. Will be adding beta testers soon.

See https://www.privicy.com/privicypal/about

Yep, exactly that!

As in, you can do GDPR export or Google Takeout now and then, but then you request it, enter your password/etc; in few days you will get a link to the archive. You can put a reminder to do it now and then, but then your export stales, it's just so frustrating. It's almost ok as a means of backup, but it's hard to use this data in a meaningful day.

The lack of an export feature is rather common among smaller services. What Google and Facebook are capable of doesn't scale down to other service providers.