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When you use the cloud, you're immediately at the mercy of three entities:

The provider, who can ban you on their whim with no practical recourse.

The ISPs between yourself and your provider, which is a real problem when ISPs have such lax requirements about "what is broadband"; when they have huge ambitions for making money off your traffic.

The browser vendors, who break backwards compatibility like it's going out of style. This goes back to the provider too, who like to dictate which browser you must use to access their services.

That's a lot of links in a fragile chain just to have access to basic computer functionality.



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