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by yzzxy 4270 days ago
The things you describe, unlike Firefox and the web frameworks Mozilla develops, require servers. Servers are expensive, even with the current low cost-end users ratio of cloud servers.

I think few people will agree that it is within your "basic rights" to demand someone else store, munge, and beautifully surface your data at their expense.

What is your issue with Dropbox, Facebook, etc? If it's privacy, roll your own server. There are plenty of projects to provide Google Docs/Drive functionality on your own server. Normal office suites also work just fine. Dropbox is basically glorified rsync. Ello, App.net, etc cater to the privacy conscious social networker.