The problem with this is that people use Google Drive for a lot of purposes. Including private ones.
I really don't want Google removing my stuff because of some T&C crap when I'm not even sharing it with anyone. An external HDD is much less likely to break but it doesn't try to impose any opinions on my data. Overall the risk of data loss is much less with redundant personal storage.
At least just disable the sharing feature but don't delete it or ban the account. It makes the service completely unreliable as a storage medium. Sharing is only a tiny part of the features of these services and the only part where such limitations should apply.
For example I don't have anything really bad but I do have copyrighted stuff on my O365 like ISO images to have handy when I need to reinstall something. I'm not sharing them but if they'd be deleted anyway I'd be really really pissed.
And really, Google/MS shouldn't even be able to see what we store on Drive unless we try to share it publicly. It really should be zero-knowledge encrypted. Luckily there's apps like Cryptomator.
I really don't want Google removing my stuff because of some T&C crap when I'm not even sharing it with anyone. An external HDD is much less likely to break but it doesn't try to impose any opinions on my data. Overall the risk of data loss is much less with redundant personal storage.
At least just disable the sharing feature but don't delete it or ban the account. It makes the service completely unreliable as a storage medium. Sharing is only a tiny part of the features of these services and the only part where such limitations should apply.
For example I don't have anything really bad but I do have copyrighted stuff on my O365 like ISO images to have handy when I need to reinstall something. I'm not sharing them but if they'd be deleted anyway I'd be really really pissed.
And really, Google/MS shouldn't even be able to see what we store on Drive unless we try to share it publicly. It really should be zero-knowledge encrypted. Luckily there's apps like Cryptomator.