Why Do We Still Let Webmail Services Get Away With Deleting Our Data? (flag)

www.techcrunch.com — It’s 2009. Storage is so cheap that Email providers like Yahoo are literally giving you as much space as you want . Yet we still have to deal with archaic policies that allow these Email providers to delete everything in our inboxes if, for whatever reason, we forget to login for a few ...

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