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Re: Google One

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Post by blairbeckwith »

mda wrote: post #282
TootsMagoon wrote: post #272

Just a reminder. You are the product Google sells. This is a premium service to make you a more premium product that Google will sell to advertisers. We should all be looking at different (non advertising) models for the services they are offering. Hyper-targeted advertising and all the risks associated with it is not good for society.

I hear this often but usually lacks explanation, can you elaborate?

I fly in to a rage now every time I hear this. It's become completely and utterly meaningless. "If you're not paying, you're the product!" -> "If you're paying, you're just a better product for them to sell!"

It might be true, but there exists not a single person on this site who hasn't heard it, and it provides absolutely zero value.

It was never even true to start with. The act of paying for something in no way has ever made you ineligible as a source of other revenue.

Re: Google One

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Post by izzydata »

But can I use it as an image host like Dropbox public folders used to be? Can it sync a folder from my computer like Dropbox does?

The actual amount of space is so trivial compared to my many terabytes of storage so that is not a useful feature for me.

Re: Google One

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Post by dwild »

r3bl wrote: post #149
nolok wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not doing mix calculation they're aligning themselves to the market, aka Dropbox, while doubling the space offered.

It's way more than doubling. Dropbox offers 1TB for $10 and 2TB for $20. Google added another zero (10x as much for the same price). Dropbox was definitely the first to offer a viable cloud storage, but they've always offered laughable storage plans (compared to their competition).

> Dropbox offers 1TB for $10 and 2TB for $20. Google added another zero (10x as much for the same price).

2 TB on Google One is $10, which is half of $20. I don't understands what you means by adding a zero. Are you comparing the 20TB offer which is $200 and have missed the 10x prices increase too?

Re: Google One

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Post by jeremy7600 »

acdha wrote: post #270

You'd think an advertising company would be better at, well, advertising. All of the listed benefits at the top of the page are either things everyone has already been using with the exception of full-quality photos, which was previously available as a paid option with the same pricing, and unspecified additional promotional features. It seems like the main improvements are adding family plans to match Apple and havi…

Advertising service.

Re: Google One

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Post by dwild »

zwaps wrote: post #156

There is no special privacy policy, in other words, if you upload your "whole life" to there, as they suggest, then your whole life is owned by Google and they can do whatever they want with that data, as you signed over all the rights. I mean, I use online storage for my family pictures, my important documents etc. etc, and so the minimum requirement is that it is encrypted and the company contractually agrees not t…

Encrypt your data yourself and don't trust any cloud provider to do it for you. You can only trust yourself.

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Post by darkerside »

spyckie2 wrote: post #78

"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated that storage into one space, so let's call it Google one! It's a great name - simple and powerful, symbolizes the effort and direction we've taken in the past 5-10 years of integrating our consumer, day t…

Amazon Prime doesn't sound like much either, does it?

Re: Google One

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Post by digitalsanctum »

It seems like Google always gets in it's own way and this is no exception. They need to stop with this nonsense and bring back apps that are actually useful like Google Reader and improving apps that folks use everyday like Gmail and Google Maps. When is the last time one of these apps had a memorable and compelling new feature?

Re: Google One

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Post by dwild »

shashankjain16 wrote: post #262

How significant would the revenue from these services? I mean, if it's quite significant, doesn't it make sense to offer an "ad-free" plan where they do not track the user and do not show them ads. Only a small portion of their tracking user base would be affected and they would not lose many of the privacy aware users as customers.

> doesn't it make sense to offer an "ad-free" plan where they do not track the user and do not show them ads.

They did try it with Google Contributor, but only for a short amount of time to a limited set of users (US only). Now it changed to be for specific websites only which is pretty absurd.

I believe they haven't move toward ad-free plans simply because it would cannibalize their own product. They can sell ad space because they get ad view from all type of consumer. If they can't reach theses consumers, they have nothing to sell, thus will lose theses sales.

I think it's absurd though because it's the future and instead each website will implements it (and some will implements it together) which will cannibalize Google. Patreon is just the beginning.

Re: Google One

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Post by dwild »

onyva wrote: post #137

Does anybody really trust google with any of their services? It’s here today gone tomorrow.

It's just a rebranding of Google Drive. It's crazy the amount of people here that believe it's a brand new product. Isn't there more user of Google Drive? My account was simply "migrated" to Google One.

They added the client support, that's all.

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