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Data exhaust older than a month is not monetizable for them. This lets them save space and seem nice while nothing changes.
by jtth 6y ago
Data exhaust older than a month is not monetizable for them. This lets them save space and seem nice while nothing changes.
- themodelplumber 6y agoYour comment made me wonder how much cost this may save, in terms of storage, maintenance, electricity, etc. Are we talking petabytes of storage? Could the data include things like imagery or massive encapsulations?
- est31 6y agoThere is no guarantee that this feature doesn't just flip a "deleted" bool column in their database outside of GDPR countries. And maybe derived products of the data stick around for longer, i.e. weights of custom ML models, HMM states, etc.
- el_nino 6y agoIt's also buying good will with users and regulators since privacy became a hot topic in recent times. Google decided to make it a default to delete any data older than 3 or 18 months. This is a clear sign that even 3 month old data has just marginal value, if any.
- zelly 6y agoSearch history, ad clicks, etc. can serialize to very tiny records. I don't think this is about saving storage space. One day of YouTube uploads probably takes more space than every user's data combined.
- jtth 6y agoSure. Still saves space. Also closes over the envelope of their legal exposure.
- t-writescode 6y agoHaving exabytes of storage space and saving a few TB does functionally nothing. It'd be like you deleting a single doc file.