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I mean if you thought you will pay flat fee and get online hosting till the end of time (and most likely didn't read the fine print that said it isn't infinite in time), that's on you


Eh, I disagree here. Like some responsibility is always on the consumer, but clear information is essential in good markets.

If I pay for a hard drive and get one TB of space, I get it til the end of time. If some other product says "1 TB of storage", with no other context, it'd be easy to confuse the two (especially for people who aren't tech-savvy).


> If I pay for a hard drive and get one TB of space, I get it til the end of time. If some other product says "1 TB of storage", with no other context, it'd be easy to confuse the two (especially for people who aren't tech-savvy).

If your physical object you bought that stores the data physically on the object , sure. But it was not that, it was cloud service


But people bought physical cameras. It's not unreasonable to think "I am buying this camera with one week of storage". If you don't know how technology works and it's not clearly explained, it's very easy to misconstrue that.


Well, that sounds like someone whoa attained their ‘sage wisdom’ through bitter experience —- and not through native wisdom.

Not sayin’ you’re wrong, just sayin’.

PS - yes, at one time, I probably bought a pair of those ‘X-ray glasses’ advertised in the backs of comic books.


I guess achieving "sage wisdom" of "reading the terms of service you pay for" attained at cost of only few shitty cameras is cheap for the affected.




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