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Re: Google One

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Post by digianarchist »

ahofmann wrote: post #43
sharmi wrote: post #16

Google One = Google Drive + more space + Customer Service for around $2 a month. Customer Service is not called Customer Service but Google Experts. What does this mean for actual service? The thing I like/jumps out for me is no compressing of images. That is one of the reasons I decided to go with Backblaze for backup. I would still stay with backblaze as I am not so confident about Google keeping the product around…

> I have managed to setup a upload workflow for Backblaze on my linux machine without going through a browser. Would it be possible for you to share your way of doing this? I would be very interested in B2 access without browser.

Arq supports B2.

Re: Google One

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Post by luigibosco »

azinman2 wrote: post #308
will_brown wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s also a straight rip off of a name from Microsoft...who produces the product Xbox One Not unlike how Google became alphabet which seems influenced by *Amazon A to Z

“One” is very trendy right now.

Makes sense, "One is the loneliest number"

Re: Google One

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Post by shashankjain16 »

dwild wrote: post #299
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 spa…

I think customer willing to pay to not to be tracked is not a customer for them anyway. For example, I myself have adblockers installed, use Firefox with tracking protection, use Duckduckgo as search and Outlook as email (this can be debated). It's true that not everyone can go that far in protecting themselves from tracking, but adblockers are quite common.

Web ad-platforms are different from traditional ad-platforms, like television, because in latter you don't really have an option to skip/ignore ads.

Re: Google One

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Post by therealdrag0 »

shpx wrote: post #73
bmiranda wrote: post #7

For a moment I thought it was going to be another chat app. Instead it's... something? A one sentence description at the beginning of the page wouldn't hurt...

Compare with https://www.dropbox.com/

Woah. I clicked the link and was logged in already. I'm sure I logged in on this computer (work) at some point, but I'm disappointed that session didn't expire. I can't remember the last time I logged into dropbox here, it feels like months!

Re: Google One

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Google One

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Post by therealdrag0 »

royal_ts wrote: post #105
sascha_sl wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny enough, all options almost exactly match Apple pricing. Apple: 50GB for 0.99 200GB for 2.99 2TB for 9.99 Google: 100GB for 1.99 200GB for 2.99 2TB for 9.99

afaik they run their Cloud Stuff on Google too

As of 2016 both Google and AWS: https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-str...

Re: Google One

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Post by therealdrag0 »

mikro2nd wrote: post #161
Insanity wrote: post #88

Kind of related, I was recentl thinking about making some backups of valuable (emotionally speaking) things like wedding pictures. Currently they are backed up on my local machine and my server, but was considering cloud options. My wife does use Google Drive (paid account w/ Chromebook) but I don't feel that comfortable with Google things. Does anyone have good alternatives that perhaps respect privacy? :)

With Google -- and especially considering recent history -- I be worrying about when this product is going to be end-of-lifed.

If they OEL a storage platform, surely they'd let you export it fairly simply, and you can transfer it to another provider.

Re: Google One

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Post by timdavila »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #172

I really wish Google would have clearly said whether they will or will not monetize data inside Google One accounts. With my paid G Suite account for personal use I have some confidence Google isn't monetizing my Gmail, Drive, and hopefully Photos, but with Google One, I can't see the same policy written clearly.

If they're not very clearly stating the opposite, the answer should be assumed to be yes they are monetizing it.
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