Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
The usual argument for using "cloud" over managing your own files/data is that it's very hard to safely manage your own data without making mistakes (data loss, etc). However, this is an example of how companies like Google also make mistakes. Furthermore, when Google/FB makes a mistake (like leaking your private data) they do it at a global scale.<p>I offboarded myself from all of Google's services a while ago, but I also think "cloud" is dead, at least in the cases where the cloud service holds the encryption keys on my behalf. I don't trust, and never will trust, any company to hold on to my data without either selling it to a third party or accidentally leaking it.