Not what your asking but, I have a backup hard disk at my workplace. I have the same size disk at home and when I need to update something on my backup, I copy it to the at home disk. I bring that to work and bring back the other disk home. This way, there is always a backup away from home. All encrypted so nobody can steal the data.

Other options can be a friend or family member.

And for other stuff I also have it on Google Drive.

I have this vpn because it comes for free with my Google Drive subscription. I have never used it because it does not do what I expect it to do

• privacy, it's Google.
• pretend to be in a different country is not available

It's probably not advertising that they are afraid that you will block but the trackers. They want to know what user is clicking where, how long you are on each page and what you ordered / not ordered.

Same with YouTube ads. Lots of scam's and reporting it always ends in my report getting denied..

At least it had the decency too stay on it. Could have sit on it for a minute, walk away and then watch you eat it.

"and you unfold the drawing" I think they did not fully unfold the drawing

Must be one of those electric cats then.

That is a long time ago that I have heard anyone say that. Wasn't there a client software called DC++ or something like that?

True but it hosted in Germany. That country does not take it easy on piracy...

I personally think that everything has always gone to shit. But in the downfall, new things will take over until that goes to shit. Or maybe because there are new things the old things will go down.

Take the example of video stores. They used the be the best thing ever. Rent all the movies you would like to see for a small fee per movie. Then downloading and streaming came along. Streaming was cheaper and more convenient. Result: video renting business went to shit.

Then the streaming services started to raise their prices. It started going to shit. Soon new ideas/companies/services will swoop in and the cycle will repeat again.

Someone was trying to do the same thing as in that 1983 movie Scarface https://borntobeunicorn.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/scarface_bornunicorn.png

Also all the tracking and analysis tools that are integrated in most ecommerce are huge. We made a website for a company that was really fast and snappy. Then they added all their tools and it turned into a slug.