[ohlookabird]

Thanks. However, it is just not excusable and a breach of trust. The Backblaze Twitter communication making pretty clear that they don't see a problem with tracking paying customers. We are moving somewhere else.

[dgellow]

I wouldn't judge a company based on their Twitter engagement. Twitter is a really dumb place.

[wccrawford]

If a company engages via a public medium, you absolutely should judge them by their interactions on it.

If they refrain from engaging, then I agree that you shouldn't judge them by that.

[dgellow]

If a company writes childish messages in a place where it is expected to read childish messages, I wouldn't use that to judge the rest of the organization.

[ohlookabird]

That might be and I am not judging you for this perspective. From a company handling my data I however expect them to be professional wherever they articulate themselves about a serious problem.

[atYevP]

Yev here -> I think part of that was a mistake on the Twitter side of things. We've published a blog post with information after finishing our root cause analysis -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr....

[nerdponx]

Same, I'm out. Who are you moving to?

[quchen]

I’ve looked at Backblaze and Wasabi for my personal off-site backups, and sided with Wasabi. Can’t complain so far.

[thejohnconway]

Does Wasabi do something similar? Have you checked? There’s probably a very limited window to do that, I’d imagine everyone in this space is checking their trackers now.

[jakemauer]

I just signed up for a free trial with Wasabi and they include trackers from Google analytics and LogRocket. I'm not sure if they send filename data across the wire.

[ddalex]

Is it smart to tell people that you are leaving before you actually backed-up and moved you data in the new place!?

[tobr]

I kinda lost whatever trust I had in Backblaze here, but I don’t think they’re in the habit of deleting paying customers’ data in vengeance.