I wonder if it is legal for someone to inherit a Google account, since it is personal. The same for Amazon account or any other. Can someone inherit a Google account for the Email and Photos history, as well for books on Google Play and any other purchase? Can someone inherit a Kindle Account? Of course they can have access with user and password, but if these companies are still on the market 50 years from now I wonder if they will start deleting accounts from people supposedly with 110 years and over.
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
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Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#392> "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?
Time to print those emails and start using a binder from now on ...
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#393I guess Google needs to figure out whether it gives services for free in exchange for data collection and ads or it completely kills ads for paying customers. It shouldn't overload paying users with ads. It shouldn't display even one single ads for those who pay. But it's not the case.
The sad truth is that the whole thing is not about storage. Lately Google just decided to start milking users much harder and basically torture users with insane amount of ads along with a forced movement of their data to monthly paid services like YouTube Music.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also a massive security hole. I needed to do a password reset on my old ebay account, but the hotmail account it was attached to was deleted, so I just created a new hotmail account with the same name, and reset my password. I've done this maybe three or four time, because I haven't used hotmail since high school, so they keep deleting it. A lot of people also have password resets on gmail linked to their old hotmail…
I used to know somebody who would take stuff from old abandoned neopets accounts that way. They would often have their email address in their neopets profile, it would be expired, he would make it and reset the password.
That's an absolute blast from the past.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
People use email as a sneaky method of storage
How prevalent is that? Some nerds doing this is a drop in the ocean. Rather my bet would be on Youtube as the hungry beast that can't get enough storage. There's a loooooooot of videos that have single digit views yet need to be accessible at any time, instantly. Video is large. Doesn't youtube even keep the original file nowadays?
In my experience, this is super common. Lots of average computer users send video clips, uncompressed 48 megapixel photos from their cell phones, PowerPoint presentations with embedded videos and 48 megapixel images, pdfs, and on and on. At the company where I work now several people have a 1MB gif of the company logo that they put in their signature.
Combine that with Gmail telling users for years that they had plenty of space, so there was no need to ever delete anything, and people believed it. Now you have a decade of emails with giant attachments or embeds that may or may not ever get looked at, and that keeps growing.
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
One problem that we run into though is that spindle count /random access capability is not increasing correspondingly. It's an interesting challenge.
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the advantages of being on an exponential growth curve is that this figure has been way lower in the past. Just go back 5 years and it's only a fraction of that. 5 more years and it's even lower. The gmail/drive/etc. data that come from Google's first decade of existence probably fit into those 4.3 petabytes.
The other implication of exponential data growth is that shortening retention periods is only a short term solution to storage costs.
I'd say it's the main implication. Google will have to use more drastic means soon. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I checked. It's really 15 GB of textual emails, from 2012 until December 2018 when it hit the limit.
Admittedly I don't know many cases with such a traffic.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#400The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that. Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit is 365 days of inactivity.
Microsoft sold my minecraft name to some xbox live player because I didn't play the game for a year.
That's something I paid for!! It matches my HN name, my domain, the alias I use on IRC and discord etc. I'm still pissed about it.