EarlyMorningLight
Subversive
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2022
- Posts
- 390
I would never ever trust a cloud for my creations. Especially google. Their entire business is collecting information on anyone or anything and selling it. Why do you think that they bought Fitbit a couple of years ago?
Worried about a crash? We write text. The memory is tiny (relatively). Every few weeks I copy my entire fiction folder to a memory stick. It takes like 3 minutes to copy. I stick it in and pour myself a tea, come back and it's done. Worried about a house fire? Copy it again to a second stick and put it in the shed.
Someone earlier mentioned that they loved the cloud because they didn't have to worry about saving their work. Srsly? Like lazy much? Ctrl-S, come on.
Eh, the account I use for writing erotica is completely separate from the accounts I use for other things, so I'm not concerned about what information they're collecting. If Google wants to read my smut, hell, I put it here on Lit for free anyway.
Unless you go completely off grid, give up smartphones, social media, most of the internet, etc., these companies are going to track you anyway. It's a cost of engaging with modern technology, because capitalism is an amoral hellscape. Might as well reap the benefits of having my work backed up, accessible from multiple devices, and easily shared with beta readers/editors/collaborators.