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Originally Posted by Graham
There is one huge difference. Google's primary business is advertising. Consequently their database is like gold dust to them. The others have reasons to sell on your data, Google far, far less so. Your data is what brings their core business in to them.
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Yes. That's exactly the reason why I don't want to use it.
What I want for software, is a business-model like GOG.com uses.
They have games.
I have money.
I give them money, they give me a game. I download it, and I'm done.
Then we're out of each others hair. As long as I have a computer and OS that will run the game, it will run, forever, unchanged, no strings attached. If they update a game, I can download a new copy and install that... *IF* I want to.
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Their primary interest is in selling targeted advertising.
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I detest advertising. I want something for free without advertising, and if that is not possible, I'll pay for it, so I don't have to look at advertisements.
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On the other hand, you are presumably placing your trust in a series of offline backup procedures. If you are backing up your data online, then you're at the same sort of risk as I am.
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All of my data is backed up on two separate external hard disks.
I have no data in the cloud, and I never will, except for some trivial stuff such as savegames in DropBox so I can play a game on two computers at once.