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>I find it pretty amazing how most people are now OK with a third party keeping a copy of every document and photo of their lives.

Most people can't be arsed to back stuff up even though losing them will be tragic, destructive, and debilitating all at once. For most people, autosyncing by the likes of iCloud, Google Drive, Onedrive, et al. are a godsend of usability and practicality. Likewise, most people can't be arsed about encryption or privacy either.



> Likewise, most people can't be arsed about encryption or privacy either.

Yep, I think if the average person was asked to rank the what's important it would be convenience/recoverability >>> privacy/encryption.




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