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google's AI moderation deleted artist's entire google account for uploading his own old manga to gdrive
(lm.kluge.cafe)
https://xcancel.com/AyakaMods/status/2057438125203296642#m
this needs to stop man
Encrypting something with your own key before you upload it is a solution for backups, but you do lose the convenience factor of cloud storage. If you are only using Google Drive for backup, that could work.
The alternative is to use a service with built-in end-to-end encryption.
I don't think they're a scam. They're just more honest: you use x amount of storage, you pay for x amount of storage and you can do with it as you like.
It's not presented as "free" where you actually pay with your data, a dependency on the service and hidden content restrictions.
But offsite storage is something that per definition can't be done locally ...