Uhhh, me? My home directory has 20-30 years of documents, photos, emails, the email address itself, instant-messaging logs, etc. Even a downloaded zip of every comment I ever made on Reddit. (But not HN, I should look into that.)

The primary exception would be Google Photos pictures which were auto-uploaded from my phone that I haven't curated and downloaded yet.

I predict I will maintain my custom-domain email address much longer than if I had used Gmail, given the attrition rate of bannings without support.

> on non-archival media you still control [...] Or more likely, copied somewhere else to keep it secured.

Hold up, is this OR or XOR? It sounds like you're trying to add unreasonable (dis-)qualifiers. TFA isn't saying one must boycott "the cloud" and erase all data, it just advocates that you retain an independent copy.

> Dropbox or Backblaze or S3 one of those, you guessed it, CLOUD services.

I think that's conflating different use-cases.

* Having a regular offsite backup into S3 isn't that different from when the data was rsync'ed to a Linux machine I paid for an account on. Any cloud-ness is a remote implementation detail, not a change in the consumer relationship.

* In contrast, "all my photos are in the cloud and my friends and family can collaborate on shared albums" is different, it permanently moves the locus of control.