I moved everything over to Amazon Prime which is now the unlimited free storage choice for photos. When they bring the hammer down, I'll move it to the next website of the day.
Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
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#232> Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.” Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait & switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions
What did the leaders say to their engineers, did they mislead them?
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#233Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1150/
But these comics often misrepresent the issue (for humorous effect). It sounds like chad was never asked if it was ok to store stuff in his garage, chad never promoted as such.
Gmail was promoted as a free service.
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I like the comic and it's definitely hilarious, and but it's not necessarily an apt comparison. Imagine the same situation with a bank holding your money. Are you paying them? (I assume you're not... I guess if you are, you probably shouldn't be.) Does that mean they're not in the business of storing your money and should be able to just give it away if you don't claim it in a month?
Reading into this beyond what you were intending I'd love for private data to be as regulated as money
I'd love private data to be regulated as private data, with privacy/liability laws and such.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#235> Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.” Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait & switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions
To be fair, Google's pricing on storage is more than reasonable. I pay £2.50/month for 200gb of storage which more than covers my lifetimes worth of photos so far (in full res with a fair few RAW photos in there too). And they're not deleting any photos that users already uploaded. I think Google deserve all the criticism they get for shutting down services. But this one seems to have been handled quite well.
This is much better stepped pricing than Dropbox'
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#236I pay $99/year for the consumer 2TB plan. It lets us store full size stills and videos. To put it in perspective, one family night out at a seafood restaurant costs about that much, and a couple of frappuccinos a month can add up to that much in a year. Then again, a 5TB hard drive is, what? $119 or less? It's hard to figure the sweet spot, but the convenience factor is huge.
The full-size photos are still compressed, unfortunately. And Google Photos turns Live Photos into 2-3 sec video files, which destroyed a huge chunk of my photo library when I made the switch to iCloud Photo Library.
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#237If you have to start paying for photo storage, you may as well move them somewhere with better privacy.
I'm giving Amazon Photos a try, since they offer unlimited high quality storage with Prime. I will appreciate if someone shares their opinion about this service.
It's a lot nicer importing and exporting photos with Amazon Prime Photos. Google Takeout is a nightmare to use.
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It's only going to get more difficult to switch to another email provider as time passes, you should switch now.
I would even go as far as to suggest setting up your email with your own domain. This way switching providers is as easy as just changing a few DNS settings. I've been running that setup for a few years now and it has been flawless. Spam is almost entirely gone, with a catch-all address I can simply sign up to websites with @mydomain, makes it easy to track down if one of them ends up doing shady things with your mai…
I have a few domain names but I don't know which one I should use to replace my usual firstnameletter.lastname@gmail.com.
Should I go for firstname.lastname@hardtochooseamongwhatsleftdomain.com or mail@firstnamelastname.com ?
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I would even go as far as to suggest setting up your email with your own domain. This way switching providers is as easy as just changing a few DNS settings. I've been running that setup for a few years now and it has been flawless. Spam is almost entirely gone, with a catch-all address I can simply sign up to websites with @mydomain, makes it easy to track down if one of them ends up doing shady things with your mai…
I have a few domain names but I don't know which one I should use to replace my usual firstnameletter.lastname@gmail.com. Should I go for firstname.lastname@hardtochooseamongwhatsleftdomain.com or mail@firstnamelastname.com ?
I personally have a "vanity" domain that spells out my last name (the TLD forms the last two letters). So I just have @ for personal stuff, and then for example git@ for github, spotify@ for spotify etc.
The mail@firstnamelastname.com approach seems like a clean way to do it as well.