From my subscription cost, yes. This aligns my privacy goals with their need for income which is not the case for "free" advertising-supported products.
Reading the article you still might come away thinking it’s MAGA induced.
Most people still do get the vaccine, right along with their MMR, tetanus, and polio shots, an account of not wanting to drown in their own lungs from a preventable infection.
But I don’t think that quote is true given the info from the CDC links here in the thread.
So you’re saying it’s ok to trust those cloud providers
What kind of trust are you referring to? I trust that they take great pains to protect their cloud customer's data. CGP is not Google Search is not Google advertising.
Do I trust them to do the right thing environmentally? No. Geopolitically? No. But let's not get these all confused. They do support surveillance tech but surreptitiously mining their cloud customer's data has the potential to sink their entire business overnight.
I have backed up and restored several TB of data using restic. It's been great in my experience.
I've mostly used it to back up to Wasabi but if I was setting it up now, I'd take a good look at CloudFlare R2.
If you've already got a host, you might implement the rest server.