I cancelled my storage subscription with google in the past year, partially to degoogle my life, but also because in all those years they kept the price the same for the same amount of storage. It’s not like it was that much, 20€ for 100GB/year, but I have MS O365 family plan which gives me 1TB per account, so no real point in staying.
At one point I will have to demicrosoft I suppose, but I:m not in a rush. At least MS doesn’t convert my pictures to shitty quality.
I’m close to doing the same. Mostly because of how poorly they handled Google Play Credit cards being hung up in their automated system and basically stiffing me for them. They can’t be returned to the store despite Google insisting they can be. I gave up after 13 attempts…
Being more than a Google Drive and YouTube customer I have other Google services I’m not sure it’s worth the effort anymore. This is after years of paying monthly fees all because I can’t find a human at google to resolve a google play gift card issue on their end. I hope California takes them to the cleaners in the class action over the millions in Google Play they are holding.
It’s free money for them as there is no way for many users to redeem or refund these cards bought in grocery stores, online, and/or big box stores. This is the part where I think they have slided into the evil part the early version of them were concerned about.
Or that they would de-duplicate photo storage. Currently, if you upload one from phone+tablet+computer or some other combo of devices, the photos all count towards your storage limit rather than storing one object and having references to that same one object. It is a problem already solved multiple ways.
No, I believe they are saying one 5mb photo file is duplicated per device it’s saved on, meaning 3 devices with the same photo will cost you 15mb of drive storage instead of just the 5mb it’s supposed to.
Saving is optional - you don’t have to save a photo to be able to browse it. And yes, browsing it will take some storage space as well since the app has to download, cache and render the image somehow but that’s true for any device and just the way it works.
Unlimited full-resolution photo storage is the main reason I subscribe to Prime.
Prime Video I could easily do without, Prime Music I haven’t even tried, Twitch Prime throws my friend a couple bucks a month, free shipping doesn’t matter since I could just wait to hit the minimum spend for free shipping. All nice to have, I guess, but I wouldn’t pay for.
But the unlimited full-resolution photo storage alone is worth the full subscription price. I don’t even know how many 100s of GB of photos my wife and I have taken over the last decade, especially since having kids. Maybe another 5GB/mo?
Prime Photos is nice but it doesn’t include videos, and I also wonder how long it will last. Nobody can really give out so much space for free, both Microsoft and Google tried to do it in the past and they reverted it back.
Yeah, fair. I backup my videos by syncing to my old Pixel 3a. It’s low res, but I don’t really care about video quality on old videos. If I’m recording something to upload or share, then I’ll work with the original file.
It’s encrypted at the local protocol level, global and resilient. But I understand, it’s not under your jurisdiction. You can also encrypt the file names if you want to.
It’s mostly additional capacity for your Google cloud storage. It also includes a VPN and a couple of premium Google Photos features like magic eraser.
They’ve actually been ramping up efforts to get people to pay for storage lately. I’ve always been fairly close to full, but lately they’ve started popping up brightly-colored warnings on various interfaces telling me to buy more space.
I did the opposite and got down to like 80% full, and the warnings are still there!
This is a far cry from the original statement that I’d never run out of email storage. (Yes, I use it for other things, too, but I’ve found myself having to delete emails with attachments to keep storage requirements down.
I right now have 215GB and pay 0$. I boght a used LG V10 and HTC One M9 and they had some kind of promotion that gave you 100GB of free space for a year. Its been well over a year now and I still have it.
I don’t see Google raising that storage limit anytime soon. They’ve spent the past 2 years years trying to get rid of storage requirements on their end. They combined drive, email, and photo storage in the same storage limit. They’re about to start trimming inactive Google accounts. The plan here is to push people into the higher 1TB plan which might be more profitable for them. I’m amazed the price for the plans have held steady. I’d expect a price increase from either Google or OneDrive.
I bought the 2TB package because my wife needs the extra features for her side-business/hobby, like the appointment slots, no time-limit on Google Meet, etc.
And since we already use Google for most of our stuff it was the rational choice.
They just needed to offer lots of storage so they could kill off Dropbox, now that it’s mostly dead for consumers, it’s time for Google to make money with their monopoly. Even though storage prices have gone way down.
Exactly, I had GSuite and purchased 1tb storage for Drive. Now I’ve been moved to Workspace and they’ve cut each user down to 30gb (I’m the only user) and my Drive space doesn’t count for any of it. Drive says I have 1tb but Workspace Admin says my user is 300% over the limit.
Google themselves told me I need to purchase more storage (or up the number of users) and try and get a refund on the 1tb storage. Bizarre.
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