250TB is a lot of data, there is a good chance a lot of that will never even be seen more than once if at all. It’s at least 15 years of straight video runtime.
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, let's blame the victim here!
I mean 237 TB of data is an excessive amount of data. The 'victim' here clearly knows they are taking advantage of a situation. Google is in the wrong on their response but, come on, let's be reasonable human beings and stop saying 'victim blaming'.
> The 'victim' here clearly knows they are taking advantage of a situation
The victim is "taking advantage" of an advertised feature of the service they paid for, and has done nothing wrong. The fault lies entirely with Google for advertising unlimited storage, knowing full well that no such thing exists. Same with every other cloud storage service that once advertised unlimited storage. Just because someone who understands how computer storage works could probably figure out that it wasn't really unlimited doesn't make it not false advertising.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Title is straight up lies. Enlighten us
The actual text in the story doesn't match the title. It's pretty obvious if you read it.
>The actual text in the story doesn't match the title. It's pretty obvious if you read it.
I did read it. Title is definitely reflective of the articles content.
Did you read it?
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
>the individual clearly knew they were taking advantage of a system Why do you think this?
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Are you seriously asking this question or are you completely disconnected from the dictionary? What does "unlimited" mean? No limits. If you don't intend for a customer to make use of unlimited storage, with no limits, then use the proper English word.
Also, this was a paid subscription.
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#155The actual headline is slightly less inflammatory: "Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data" The facts of the article are even less inflammatory. The journalist uploaded 237.22 TB of video to his google drive when the "unlimited" plan existed. When google phased out the unlimited plan, he's not paying fo…
For 5k you could build a box to store that kind of data.
Throw in a case of beer, and maid services to clean up your living room afterward, and you'd still make budget.
ETA: OK maybe more like 10-12k it would be.
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#156It appears that he had a Workspace account which offered “unlimited” storage for a time, predicated on the account type being multiuser businesses or education, with a per-seat fee. Google phased out the unlimited storage awhile ago (over a year) after people discovered a loophole where paying for one account still provided unlimited storage. Predictable abuse followed (see /r/datahoarders). While I’m sympathetic to…
Google offered "as much storage as you need" for the Workspace account, without attaching a condition on a required number of seats. It's not a loophole if a customer takes them up on the offer. I'm usually sympathetic with businesses who failed to appreciate how much power very few power users really have, but this is Google we're talking about. Their sales and legal department is larger than 90% of tech companies.…
This is like getting kicked out of McDonalds for ordering a small order of french fries and instead eating 400 ketchup packets.
Things are free when people don't abuse it. Just be normal. Jesus.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only that but they actually provide real support. I once complained on Twitter that I was having trouble with an EKS issue, and the product manager for EKS reached out to me directly, put me in contact with one of their engineers, and then they discovered an issue and rolled out a fix for it that day. In a separate incident, I couldn't get GCP to read the verification data for a domain from their webmaster tools…
It's not support if you have to complain on a public forum though.
That was due to my own whining and impatience. Going through the normal support channels tends to be pretty solid through.
I will say though that companies which take support seriously do monitor all sorts of channels as well.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
My previous comment was not as informed as it should have been (because I opined after only read the title... a mistake, to be sure). I've edited it and will leave it at this being a very unfortunate situation to be in.
Completely agree with this. If it's your "life's work" - "free tier" storage is 100% not the place to put it. update: Not Free but feels like taking advantage of enterprise storage (0.07 $/TB) close to free.
From the article:
> Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account. This was a plan that was offered to Google “Enterprise” Workspace customers for a while.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
They also banned encrypted files, effectively kicking off everyone using it for backup. I assume this means they look at your photos and other data.
What? How can they tell the difference between an encrypted file vs. some binary format they simply don't understand?
There aren't really all that many common unknown binary formats, in terms of GBs in people's drives.
Mostly it's photos, pdfs, word documents, executables, videos, etc.
Aside from that there are mathematical tools you can use to detect whether a binary blob is compressed/encrypted or not, like entropy calculation.
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#160Stories like these have led me to come to the conclusion that Google has literally become downright evil. Our company does basically everything in the Google cloud and if Google decides to shut us down, we're gone. Our reliance is, imho, an existential threat.
I have brought this up with management several times and they are not concerned... after all, we pay Google a lot of money every month and we're doing nothing wrong. Yeah, tell that to those dumb algorithms, and when (not if) they misfire, try to get to talk to an actual human being with any influence and willing to help in a thoroughly evil company?