You just described every business. People don't have perfect knowledge.
Thank you for trying to raise awareness over an admittedly important issue.
But calling this "evil" is absurd.
Go yell at people convincing college kids to sign up for credit cards or buy magazines by handing out T-shirts and movie passes.
For comparison: The phone companies know about every phone call you make. That's a wealth of information. They're exploiting people's ignorance to get it...
The credit card companies know about every purchase you make. Why would a company ever let another company know everything about all of their purchases?
ADP knows how much you pay all of your employees!!!
When your hard drive "fails," the guy from HP and Dell could be copying all of your data, not just "servicing" your computer!!!
Look no further than your government. Frankly, you may be better served encouraging the use of encryption, because, sadly, I could probably convince myself that Google can be trusted to lobby for my rights/privacy more/better than my governments prying eye would lobby to take them away.
However, awareness of encrypting important data and not using online-social tools is the alternative.
>it's with them exploiting people's ignorance to get it.
How are they exploiting any kind of ignorance? What is the average GDrive user unaware of that Google is somehow evil for not disclosing in large, red, 52pt Impact?
And I quoted you saying "evil" because it's the relevant portion that I was responding to. You could have gone with "Hmm, cloud storage has a few drawbacks..." but no, you went full derp.
The same way a plumber is "exploiting" your ignorance. You don't know how to or have the tools to replace your kitchen sink p-trap... that is you are ignorant in this case. In step s the business with the tools and knowledge- or technology if you will...
You can't build your own gdrive or have the tools too (or the curve to do so is too steep). In steps google.
I disagree with the word "exploit" in this case. Maybe "capitalizing" on your ignorance. That's what a successful business does- capitalizes on prevalent ignorance- of process, or tools, or what-have-you- and makes a business model out of it.
