already better than s3 :) makes me think of https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
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Surely, Google has way too much power, but as the old adage goes: don't put all your eggs into one basket :)
It's unfortunate that they are the only basket in town!
Yeah. The grandparent post is such a cliche in an age when the competition authorities stopped doing their job.
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#143Sounds like a great way to lose your Google account (and all your other linked Google services) for ToS violations to me.
Indeed. I love the "sorry @ the guys from google internal forums who are looking at this" line at the github. All tongue in cheek and aware of the situation. TBH this is not unlike reporting a security bug to a company as a white hat, but more like a grey hat here.
I think they might not care unless this can somehow endanger their infrastructure. (It's not really unlimited, is it?)
If the few blokes using this scam their way into few hundred terabytes of free storage, so be it, it's not worth the hassle for Google, imo.
edit: Apparently an account can create up to 250 docs a day https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/qu...
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> I decided to move everything OUT of Google Have you been successful in it? Any guidelines / tips? How hard is it?
I have been doing it for a long time, the hardest for me is all the registered users I have around the web linked to the email. After a few years of changing each one that mattered I finally get close to zero mail on gmail. Search I moved to ddg, that was the easy one. Android can work fine with just f-droid since I noticed I rarely even use the store any more and I need just a few essential apps. For storage, I tend…
Yandex disk is an alternative to Google photos.
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#145I couldn't find it with a quick search, but I remember many years ago someone creating a similar scheme for storing files inside of TinyURLs. You would run the uploader and get back a list of TinyURLs that could then be used to retrieve the files later with a downloader. But you couldn't store too much in each URL so the resulting list could be pretty big.
This is a favorite lunch topic at work. AFAIK we stumbled on the idea ourselves, but I'm not surprised to hear it's unoriginal. Rather than a list, our design is a tree structure where leaf nodes contain data and branch nodes contain lists of tinyurls...
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It's unfortunate that they are the only basket in town!
Are they? Email, calendar, online office, cloud storage etc. are all available from various other companies(even beside the big few corporations). The only two areas where you'd really have to sacrifice features would be Android apps, and YouTube if you're running a channel.
tell me which provider has an integrated single signon service for all of those above? Which provider has apps for their service for all major OS'es (including mobile), and is mostly free (or low cost)?
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I would make sure to not do this in an important Google account.
I've seen a few stories of businesses and their employees all losing their Google accounts, just because the company hired a freelancer who had previously been banned, and Google detected the association. (Pretty sure they got the accounts back after some public outrage.) I wouldn't risk intentionally violating their terms if you're not quite ready to wake up one day 100% Google-free, or very good at hiding your trac…
> Pretty sure they got the accounts back after some public outrage.
This may happen only if you manage to get it to the front page of HN or have many Twitter followers. In most cases you don't stand much chances though.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they? Email, calendar, online office, cloud storage etc. are all available from various other companies(even beside the big few corporations). The only two areas where you'd really have to sacrifice features would be Android apps, and YouTube if you're running a channel.
tell me which provider has an integrated single signon service for all of those above? Which provider has apps for their service for all major OS'es (including mobile), and is mostly free (or low cost)?
The cost of free is worrying about arbitrary closure, in this instance. Fastmail is much better than Gmail, for what it's worth.
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#149I couldn't find it with a quick search, but I remember many years ago someone creating a similar scheme for storing files inside of TinyURLs. You would run the uploader and get back a list of TinyURLs that could then be used to retrieve the files later with a downloader. But you couldn't store too much in each URL so the resulting list could be pretty big.
Someone also created a filesystem using DNS caches of others to store the files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134041
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OK, I did see that. But I don't understand why Google would do that. For most users, aren't Google Docs files a substantial part of their usage? Or do people mainly store backups?
Simple, Google wants to encourage people to use their office suite so they indirectly subsidise it in this way.
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