2020 04

How long should user generated data be kept in a web service

Should web services keep user-generated data forever? Or could it make sense to delete this at some point, for example, because it stops to be relevant? The thought came while watching an old Youtube video, which I already watched some years ago, and it was no longer marked as watched. I was irritated at first until I realized that I’d switched accounts in-between, and I’ve never watched it with my new account so far.

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Zoom – better not

Last two weeks, a lot was written about Zoom. It is not the first time that this company is in the spotlight – at least in the mac blogosphere. The last time it was due to an web server installed (via Daringfireball) and never removed when Zoom was uninstalled. Now it is an abused installer, installing the application in the preflight step and not informing the user about this. Apparently, it is now fixed in the meantime (via Techmeme).

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