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Re: Google One

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Post by the_duke »

powercf wrote: post #126
iKevinShah wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most probably they'll follow the path like other products have followed: Google Keep -> Keep -> Keep Notes -> Notes (In near future)

Google One ⇒ One ⇒ One Two ⇒ Two?

More like: Google One => One => Google => product canceled

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Post by xelhark »

Rjevski wrote: post #206
nwellnhof wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could win privacy-conscious users back by offering an ad and tracking free Google experience with the paid plans.

Would anyone trust them to not silently still collect personal data? For example, even if they don't need the data now because you're paying not to see ads, they might still collect it so that they can show you "better" ads if/when you stop paying.

There would be no economic advantage to that kind of behavior. I'm a fan of paid services rather than ad-based services because it switches the focus. The customer is the person that pays, not the advertising company, so the company will have an economic advantage to give a better service to you, not to the ad companies. Something like that would just jeopardise the customer for no particular economic gain, so yeah, I'd trust them.

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Post by imgabe »

I have a fair amount of stuff on Google drive and I would have liked to consolidate there, but the lack of a Linux client was a deal breaker, so I'm stuck with Dropbox.

Not that Dropbox is bad. It would be nice to have things in one place only, but maybe it's better to not be completely dependent on one service.

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Post by ryandvm »

> You're currently signed in to your G Suite account. Switch to your personal Google Account to upgrade.

Ugh... Google never misses an opportunity to shit on its most ardent supporters - the people with personal G-Suite domains.

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Post by tacomonstrous »

imgabe wrote: post #214

I have a fair amount of stuff on Google drive and I would have liked to consolidate there, but the lack of a Linux client was a deal breaker, so I'm stuck with Dropbox. Not that Dropbox is bad. It would be nice to have things in one place only, but maybe it's better to not be completely dependent on one service.

Funnily, on my encrypted disk in Debian, Dropbox needs constant monitoring to make sure it's working (need to execute a couple of simple python scripts now and then), while Drive works perfectly through InSync.

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Post by Jaruzel »

callalex wrote: post #118
Jaruzel wrote: post #117

I've just tried to share this link to a friend over WhatsApp. WhatsApp will NOT show a link preview for it, like it does for all other URLs. Is WhatsApp blocking link previews for Google services?

No, it's just a poorly constructed website that doesn't have any machine-readable summary, and doesn't even conform to their own guidelines about machine-readable summaries. At least the marketing page for this product gives you a realistic impression of how the customer experience will be...

I'm not sure about that. Even basic sites with only the 'title' tag set, still create a popup in WhatsApp, albeit with just the title text (obviously).

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Post by NiekvdMaas »

ryandvm wrote: post #215

> You're currently signed in to your G Suite account. Switch to your personal Google Account to upgrade. Ugh... Google never misses an opportunity to shit on its most ardent supporters - the people with personal G-Suite domains.

Very true, this is the case among many of their products. For example Google Home is not fully working on G Suite accounts, ridiculous.
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