5GB is plenty for emails, won’t be an issue for 99% of people.
THE problem with google’s storage is that they actively mislead consumers:
- They bother customers during setup and after with: “Do you want to backup your device?” To which a considerable amount of people react to as “Yeah ofcourse I want that!”
- Google does not show any indication where this backup goes or about the eventual payment so people just forget about it.
- After some time their gmail and photos app will start to complain: “YOUR STORAGE IS FULL” - with constant notifications. And their Gmail stops working so they can’t receive emails anymore.
- These regular people confuse ‘storage’ with internal storage so they start looking for ways to expand their internal storage, which obviously doesn’t do anything.
- Eventually they give up and either pay google the ransom or make a new email.
This is the real dark pattern behind their “free cloud”
It is interesting. I’ve deleted almost all my emails from my Gmail account and it just won’t go bellow 50% full. There is no way to see what is taking up the space.
My mother on the other hand has 3000+ emails and it’s at like 15% full. They absolutely do this on purpose.
Are you sure you’re not using anything else google related that might clog it up? That’s what I’m getting at. Check google one for a breakdown.
likely backing up to your google cloud with photos, files, essays,etc.
Did you ever use Google Photos to store your pics? That is what has my Gmail/google storage at 99% full, even though it’s been over a decade since I used it and I disconnected it from all my accounts… except apparently not. You can go through the steps to disconnect, it looks like it works, but it doesn’t. I currently have an iPhone, and if I try to delete all the photos in Google Photos, it will still sync with my phone and also delete the same photos on my phone. No matter what I do, I can’t severe that connection. And so I’m stuck at 99%
It is honestly. My Gmail is 16 years old and I’ve only used a third of a gig.
and if you need more you’re probably using a dedicated mail client anyway
Worst part is every job, educational institution, legal institution, will send you PDFs to your gmail.
What a racket, if my father was a bit more sane…
…I’d have him prepare me for actual war. He can run in complete silence in a forest.
Yes, backing up your photos is the killer.
And they don’t even store original quality
ive seen people with full gmail accounts and thounds of unread emails
oh yea they hide thier back up location very well, you have to go digging in your google drive and click on the backup/cloud option to see where it went.
Imagine how much of Earth’s storage space is marketing emails that no one reads.
I sincerely and earnestly want Google to fail and cease to exist.
Can you please hope I never win the lottery?
Except for YouTube. Spin that off first.
Probably not the place for it, but I’d be good with YouTube dying. And I’m someone who pays for YT Premium (gasp!).
Something will take it’s place, something better. I think about what it would take to scale to YT’s size from an infrastructure standpoint and the only thing close, I think, are porn sites.
How great would it be to have HubHomez by PornHub as a YT alternative. Need to work on the branding a bit but I don’t care about the platform. I’ll follow the creators to StreamyFling, a collaboration of xHamster and xvideos. Same infrastructure, different content.
C’mon porn sites. Do it. Do it.
Remember the 1GB Gmail reaction? I remember:
Damn, this image can now drink alcohol in the US.
Thank you Google for TURNING INTO FUCKING APPLE RIGHT AFTER I SWITCH TO A FUCKING PIXEL
GrapheneOS is built for Google devices. Doesn’t really solve the email problem though.
De-googling your life solves the email problem.
Aren’t Google breaking that though?
They wish. They’re adding friction to a few sites, but they can’t force literally the whole world to use gmail…right?
They’re large enough to ban alternative providers from mailing their servers and see little in the way of puahback. But I agree that the future lies elsewhere. Recently started moving email to disroot.org.
Lmao I’m in the same boat
You own a Google phone, and somehow think they don’t already have your number?
“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.
Pay for webmail.
Be the product.
Choose the form of the destructor.
Why not both? /s
We already see $1,500 TVs showing ads.
I see a Ghostbusters quote, I upvote
The market is saturated and “don’t be evil” was a long, long time ago…
So not giving away 15GB of free storage is evil? How does that even work…?
I thought being evil was about doing, like, evil things?
It’s not about the 15 GB but there was a time where Gmail was new and fancy - and Google’s slogan “Don’t be evil” as a young and uprising company. As the market got saturated, the business model (or the direction) changed and it’s not only Google, M$ 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.
I blame Microslop
New users.
Even still, I moved off Gmail years ago. I keep my Google fingerprint minimal.
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
I’m intentionaly letting it overfill
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When have they been wrong?
Whats the fucking point if they only let you attach a 25mb or smaller file.
