The free version is a loss leader to build mindshare amongst people who are (later) in a position to buy licenses.

> It's not rare, it happens constantly in enterprise software, project managemment software, anything where you have collaboration

The number of revoked tokens compared to all active tokens should still be tiny in those systems, wouldn’t you agree?

> Everyone else wants immediate revocation of rights, not waiting for a token to expire.

With a revocation list you can still have that. Once you propagated your revocation to all relying parties the token effectively expires early.

The size of the revocation list is irrelevant. As soon as you have to do a call to get the revocation list you might as well just include the rest of it in the call as well.

So? Most of your code is worthless to anyone except yourself.

Yes. GDPR allows for delays when complying with deletion requests. You should ideally document it and factor the delay into any deadlines you might be bound to.

You’d need to make sure the process is somewhat predictable, like running the vacuum on a set schedule so you know for sure what maximum amount of time a deletion request will take.

Seconded. Check out both books by the author, they’re great!

https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/ https://lets-go-further.alexedwards.net/

Thank you for following up with the links, I also made a mistake in my post. It was Let's Go Further but hopefully OP figured that out.

Thank you!

Just a note: Make sure whatever you use to backup iCloud can handle files that are not currently synced to your device. Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com) has a setting to "materialize" these files before backup for example.

interesting (the ‘materialize’ option in Arq). I wonder what it does to the files it ‘materializes’ after the backup … does it leave them on the local disk or does Arq instruct the service (dropbox or icloud) to make it cloud only again? I guess I’m wondering about the case where the total cloud footprint is larger than the local disk footprint.

Arq works with file system level snapshots. So I guess at one point all the files have to be present for the backup work. Not ideal for scenarios where the cloud data exceeds the local storage.

> What’s the barrier to entry for starting up a similar business?

The merchant of record model.

Dragnet searches are controversial in many societies, not just the US.

There’s a balance between individuals rights to privacy and what makes law enforcement easier.

One argument against broad surveillance measures like this one is that surveillance infrastructure is easy to implement and hard to get rid of again. You might be fine with the laws that are enforced with it today, but you might not be with what it’s used for in the future.

From the article:

> Emergency legislation to exonerate wrongfully convicted Post Office workers has completed its journey through Scottish Parliament and each will now receive initial compensation of £600,000, with the ability to claim more as financial redress for their suffering.

There is a chrome extension for everything. OPs point is (and I agree) that these things you only need once in a while are incredibly useful when they are only a search away. Installing a chrome extension for a few uses every other week is way too much effort.

u guys are the genius