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sirdir said:

JP234 said:

But in the end, just back everything up, people! you'll save THOUSANDS by never needing to use DriveSavers. They'll tell you the same thing.

I don't backup anymore. I have all my relevant data in iCloud. Hopefully Apple doesn't screw up. 

I’ll chime in with my 2 cents as well.  I recently had an internet outage here, and if I needed to recover something, I would have been up a creek without a paddle if my backups were in the cloud.  Using cloud storage for back ups would not be as reliable or as fast as say connecting a USB drive to your Mac.  A full restore takes long enough over usb, think of what it would be over the internet.

if you’re referring to just storing your data in the cloud, and hoping the provider manages its own backups, that may help you if they lost or munged up the data, but what if something changed it on your end, such as malware or a malicious user who gained access to your Mac? Your original data would subsequently be lost with no way to get it back.  The cloud provider would see it as just a new set of bits to store.

This reflects my sentiments exactly…

I feel like this survey reeks of confirmation bias.

This whole thing makes me think of ‘The Little Red Hen’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen

with apple being the hen, and the EU the other farm animals, except they are trying to force apple to share.

zimmie said:

As I keep saying, there's nothing private about most of these "VPN" services. They are proxies which use VPN technologies for the client-to-proxy leg of the connection.

With most, you are exchanging snooping from your telco for snooping from Belarusian companies and telcos. Not exactly an upgrade in privacy.

This.  Security at its root is all about trust.  I don’t trust any of these vpn services.  I’d rather the internet provider just see all the traffic.  That’s is not to say I don’t/won’t use vpns.  They make sense when both sides of the connection can be trusted, like connecting to work to access resources on the network there.  Or when I’m out and about, I have a personal vpn server at home I use to get access to things there.  Poking a hole in the firewall for a vpn is a whole lot safer than poking a hole for each and every resource I want to access away from home.  I trust the encryption behind several vpn softwares, but I don’t always trust what’s at the other end unless I know what’s there.