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Originally Posted by maximus83
If you use the Internet--and I'm guessing you do, given you post here :-)--and have a smartphone, and have an email provider, to varying degrees you are using the 'cloud' already. You have data, both sensitive and non-sensitive, passing through someone's servers, or sitting in their database. Even just your ISP has a lot of data about your online life. Pretending that you are somehow isolated from the cloud, just because you don't sync your books or reading data on Amazon's servers, is a bit of wishful thinking IMHO.
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There is a difference between online services and "Cloud" storage. Also between paid for "Cloud" storage and a service provided by Amazon, Kobo etc.
1) All my paid for content is backed up.
2) Big Tech companies offering supposed "free" Cloud services are mostly breaking the law and snooping on your content.
3) My own paid for hosting has been more reliable than Microsoft & Google in the last year.
4) I'd easily transfer my email, domains, hosting etc elsewhere. Amazon and other content providers are closed. You can't transfer unless you ALREADY made local backups of everything.
I do buy books from Amazon and elsewhere. I do not rely on their Cloud services for that content! It's madness. I might put a copy of something of mine on a private password controlled area of my own hosting. I'd not send it to Amazon. Amazon's Kindle service is not the same privacy as their AWS (which I'd not use either).
There are SO MANY issues and law breaking by so many "Cloud Services" it's not funny.
If you suspect there is a privacy issue with your ISP or email supplier, then in EU they are breaking the law. I used to work at a senior level in an ISP. To compare an EU ISP to Amazon Kindle service or Google's Email service is insulting.
There are issues with some US mobile and fixed broadband suppliers. Complain to FCC if you are in the USA and are affected.
Amazon already ceased a retail "Cloud" service. They've said they won't delete books again. Frankly all the major US Internet companies have been proven to be unreliable, some extremely dishonest and most breaking EU law, many breaking US laws too.