196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Hurry up and pay us rule

I don't have any pics there I'd mind losing, but for those who do, how is this not extortion?

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This is why I don't trust photo hosting sites

Nowadays if I have to use them, I'll use archive.org to save that hosted photo
- How does archive.org work?
The "Simple" app collection the FOSS community loves did the same thing with their play store version calendar, which is why I dislike them. Their FDroid versions may not do this, but like... comes off the wrong way.
- Isn't calendar info stored in android itself ? 🤨
  
  That's not the claim made by a ton of reviews on Simple's play store calendar listing
  
  Yes-ish. You can absolutely create 'local' calendars within Simple Calendar only it can access. At least I think I achieved this.
  Source: me
- All Play Store releases of Simple are paid.
  
  They weren't in the past, and the transition was problematic
It's not extortion because you willfully gave your rights away by using someone else's service.

Tired of getting fucked over? Host your own stuff. It only gets worse from here on out.
- The solution under capitalism is to always own more things.
- You can even just get a raspberry pi, install openmedia vault. Get a 2tb external hard drive, and just do it that way without worrying about this type of shit. It isn't hard to setup either.
  
  which is better openmediavault or nextcloud
They give you a free 7 day trial. I know this because I wanted to check if I had any photos there (I had none, and already requested the account deletion).
- 7 days is really stingy, though! Especially for a service that hasn't really improved since I signed up for permanently free account last decade or the one before that..
  
  You never signed up for a permanently free account. You signed up for a free at that time account. That has now changed.
  
  7 days is enough to get your files off
I've had apps do this. One was the old white pages app that changed their name to something... I think it was Hiya? They had the app free for years and users would add in call data (names to numbers). Essentially it was a community data pool. One day, they shut the gate and the only way the app would function is via a subscription every month. Eat my ass. I'm not doing that and you're a dick.
Oh man, my 2000s forum signatures are in danger!

Edgy anime fanart + level and guild of cancelled MMO
- Wow, I haven't thought about those in years.
- Minecraft achievement generator
they have been warning me for at least five years now and not actually done anything lmao
It's totally extortion. I signed into my multiple accounts to download everything within this past six months, and they WILL NOT STOP begging for my money and to come back. Nope. I just wanted all my blinkies from the early 00s tyvm.

I should probably just go and request for those accounts to be deleted...
first flickr, now this
“Hurry up asshole!!”
dystopia is when no free stuff :(

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