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  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.

    I think they just want to save the data migration costs.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.