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Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by inapis »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #109

Company giving you tons of free shit gives marginally less long lasting free shit. And its only if you're OVER the storage limit for an entire 2 years. And you can choose to pay for more storage if you'd rather keep the data. It's really not that bad... I think sometimes people hold Google to insanely high standards. They gave us so much free stuff that people get mad when they try to charge for it. Others say to mov…

Google has a slightly different problem. It has trained users into believing that shit should be free (and maybe supported by advertising) and over the years it has accumulated a significant chunk of users who either wholly believe in that mindset or are simply unable to pay for xyz reasons. Of course, people are going to raise hell when they start charging for something that was free for a decade. Google sowed the seeds on this one.

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Post by dreamcompiler »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #361
gogopuppygogo wrote: post #356

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I remember about ten years ago when 40TB of usable storage was a mid sized five five figure investment. That’s nas territory now.

I remember a time when 3mb of black market data was enough to get you out of the sprawl. Now you can barely get a Uber downtown for that.

Whoa.

Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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Post by haggy »

fps_doug wrote: post #366
danielheath wrote: post #214

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Yeah. I run a private wordpress instance on my NAS for this purpose.

Physical photographic album here.

Local NAS with offsite backup is far more resilient than any physical item onsite. One house fire and that album goes up in smoke.

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Post by ehsankia »

usr1106 wrote: post #354
ehsankia wrote: post #342

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> you would never run out of space You do see how that can't possibly applying to literally everyone, right? You can't use the argument that "they said it would grow with me" to store 1TB of emails and be surprised when they start charging you. 15GB is a lot. Even if you receive 5 emails with 1mb attachments every single day, that's still almost 10 years. With normal text emailed, you will never run out until you die…

> With normal text emailed, you will never run out until you die. I have an account that received only LKML. So just text, not a single attachment. And all written by humans (although many of them and some copying.) The account run out of space after ~ 7 years of LKML. (Need to check whether the limit is really 15 GB. I think it stopped growing at 4 or 6 GB.)

Well, it's 15GB shared with Photos and Drive, so if you do use those other products, then yes you do have less space total.

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Post by throwaway58670 »

sorenjan wrote: post #7

From the email I got from Google a few minutes ago: > Summary of the new policies (effective June 1, 2021): > • If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos, we may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive. Google One members who are within their storage quota and in good-standing will not be impacted by this new inactive policy. > • If you exceed your storage limit for 2…

I’ve gotten a flurry of “your unused firebase database will be deleted” for tiny hackathon projects from years ago. Guess they’re running some global cleaning.

Maybe machine learning stuff needs a lot of space?

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Post by nucleardog »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #356
asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #329

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I used to work on a certain Google product and I remember thinking a petabyte was big when our raw content store crossed that milestone. Now Linus Tech Tips can put that much storage in a single box.

I remember about ten years ago when 40TB of usable storage was a mid sized five five figure investment. That’s nas territory now.

Yep. Thats the flip side the the growth is that storage capacity keeps growing relative to price as well.

I spent $600 over a decade ago and put 7.5TB in my server. I spent $600 this year to add another 28TB.

I’m at nearly 40TB in my home server for maybe $1200 invested over the last decade.

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Post by rapnie »

geek_at wrote: post #130
dataflow wrote: post #4

> "If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos," the company said. That's different from just deleting all your data because you're inactive. Which is it? Edit: it seems both. Here's the blog post (maybe this is a better link): https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/

oh damn. I've created an account for my newborn son on my (free) google workspace domain and send him emails every few weeks with updates and photos. He'll receive the account when he's like 12. Will these be deleted too?

ProtonMail just launched an import/export tool that not only allows you to store your mails locally, but provides easy migration paths from Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Might be something to look into, and will also probably be a boon to privacy overall.

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Post by fowl2 »

hanniabu wrote: post #262
knowaveragejoe wrote: post #260

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That's mainly media. What's the deal with deleting emails of all things, as if they couldn't support that aspect indefinitely?

People use email as a sneaky method of storage

it would be nice if they allowed deletion (or even dedupe!) of attachments

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Post by martius »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #347
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #230

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I have read about users who are receiving someone else's mail. They have some account that has been set to forward mail. It then appears that either (a) Google assigns the address to someone else (perhaps due to inactivity) or (b) someone else keeps inadvertently typing this email address. The mail gets forwarded to some other user. If this is true, this calls the whole notion of "Gmail security" (and more generally…

Google suggests available addresses when signing up to Gmail. Perhaps they could try to address the problem of mispellings and typos by at least warning the user about the Levenshtein distance from similar, already registered addresses, and the potential for misdirected email as a result.

This would allow to guess existing email addresses which is not a good idea.
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