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Imagine how much of Earth’s storage space is marketing emails that no one reads.
“You have 15 GB of space as long as you’re not using it all”
“You used 80% of your free 15GB, upgrade for more storage. Only $9.99/mo… I mean 5.99/month.”
“Wait it’s $0.36/month for 3 months.”
“No email for you cause you used all 15G. Pay up.”
Paraphrase from tactics that they are trying for me to sign up. Heck never.
THATS THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE STILL USE GMAIL! Proton Mail has 1 free gb, I didn’t use it when I had the free plan.
Unfortunately not, the main reason the majority of people use gmail is that they don’t even know there are other email providers.
The market is saturated and “don’t be evil” was a long, long time ago…
So not giving away 15GB of free storage is evil? How does that even work…?
I thought being evil was about doing, like, evil things?
It’s not about the 15 GB but there was a time where Gmail was new and fancy - and Google’s slogan “Don’t be evil” as a young and uprising company. As the market got saturated, the business model (or the direction) changed and it’s not only Google, M$ also did reduce free space in OneDrive after many years some time ago.
“Don’t be evil” was just the referral to this slogan and I don’t care if it’s 15 GB or 30 GB today as I choose to pay for the services these days instead of just relying on any free(mium) model.
I agree that Google removing “don’t be evil” is bad. But mentioning that change in this context is a non sequitur.
Pay for webmail.
Be the product.
Choose the form of the destructor.
Why not both? /s
We already see $1,500 TVs showing ads.
I see a Ghostbusters quote, I upvote
New users.
Even still, I moved off Gmail years ago. I keep my Google fingerprint minimal.
I blame Microslop
Is Proton okay?
Yes, unless you read into the missinfo campaings. They will follow your local laws, but you can control how much info they have on you.
as long as you pay them
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When have they been wrong?
I’m intentionaly letting it overfill
Whats the fucking point if they only let you attach a 25mb or smaller file.
wtf do they need a ph# for? theyve got your email and sms ids(same as ph#). a ph# just seems like a bit of sales pitch food
I would prefer they didn’t do this, but I understand. Storage isn’t without cost. 5 GB is a lot for email actually. It’s probably intended to reduce abuse from bots. We should probably not be using free email anyway.
Storage is incredibly cheap, though. If Google used S3, the cost for a 15GB account would be pennies a year, and since they host their own architecture it can be orders of magnitude less. This isn’t about recouping costs. This is just about shaking users down for more subscription money.
It’s about tying phone numbers to accounts.
If it were, they wouldn’t tie it to storage space. That doesn’t matter to scammers and spammers; they’d require it for sending to more than x recipients per month, or for API access, or for any number of other things. The one thing spammers and scammers don’t need is storage space. They just need a trusted email gateway and IP address.
New Gmail accounts still get 15GB if they provide a phone number. So it’s specifically about that.
That’s the excuse. But phone numbers tied to names are available all over the dark web and the light web—that’s a fundamentally worthless data point by now. They don’t actually want that, they’re just saying it so you think it’s for scam prevention.
They are gathering as much info as possible for Mossad, to block all escape routes, and methods of fighting back for the majority of the world.
It will make exterminating us far easier.
Have you heard about Android?
Yes. And?
they need thier AI bucks somehow.
happy to selfhost immich
Gee, would’ve been a shame if Google’s employees go on strike and would start their own company.
