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/
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.
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.
I agree with the other poster who brought up storage costs not keeping up with growth of stuff to store.
I wonder what this means for youtube...
But their Google music fail, their rising phone prices, their bait and switch photo storage, and low quality search results have caused me to change.
Any alternatives to Chrome, Firefox on both Android and Desktop are buggy, I want a different company?
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/iq33nv/brave...
When it was launched a year or two ago, Brave didn't integrate with the Chrome extension web store, but now it does (just like Vivaldi). Of course, also like Vivaldi, you may not need another adblocker since Brave has "shields" which are very easy to enable/disable (but it works fine if you install ublock origin, privacy badger, quick JS switcher, etc.)
Opera was sold to Chinese investment fund, they are scamming short term loans in Africa now.
Vivaldi was created by old Opera exec with same goals as old Opera. Their problem is not being scammy, neither is privacy. Their biggest problems are code quality - UI in javascript is sloow, closing tabs or fullscreening youtube video takes one full second. Then there is culture of secrecy - pretending open source by dumping uncompilable tar.bz2 code shreds from time to time and keeping bug tracker behind closed doors in order to not show how (not) many people work on it and what bugs they ignore for years.
There's also this: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
A reasonable price point is that of a 10 TB HDD, you would need 430 new disks of that size everyday.
Would love to learn about what kind of contracts they enter in with hardware manufacturers.
Looking to beef up my knowledge.
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
Gmail backup archives are easy enough to load and read in other email programs, if google's storage ever becomes unreliable for you.
Regardless, all you'd have to do is log into it once a year to avoid this. You should probably be backing it up externally at least this often if you care about the content...
Indeed, this says no:
I've received multiple warnings for some of my unused domains.
I believe the Google Apps "target for deletion" process only gets triggered if none of the accounts in a domain are logged into for a period of time.
Also, books used to be printed on better paper; modern cheap books will not last as long as the old ones did. I have a couple of collector's edition books printed on acid-free paper...
It's just nice to a/ have an extra copy just in case and b/ it's more enjoyable/sentimental than looking at photos on a laptop, smartphone or TV.
At least my kids really enjoy it a lot. They liked to look at the albums my mom made from my pictures when they were between 2 and 5, still do today, even though they perfectly know how to navigate to all the photos on a tablet. That's when I decided to do it.
Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas
At the time it wasn't fraudulent, though.
And now even compressed jpegs have a size and time limit.
The OG Pixel said original quality for life, and that persists. Every other Pixel until Pixel 4 had a time limit on unlimited quality original uploads, and THAT persists. And even for Pixel 4 & Pixel 5, they're persisting the unlimited "high quality" storage option that they advertised the phones as having.
Don't get me wrong, I'm annoyed enough about them dropping unlimited original on the 4/5 that I download the 4k videos off of Google Photos and re-upload them over an old Pixel I have to get them to not count against my storage limit. But the ads have matched their current commitment, and they haven't reneged on any of the policies advertised for that given phone, at least.
Mine was ended. I've got an OG Pixel.
Basically, you get an email address, and any email you send to it is streamed to a storage account of your choosing, with optional minimal processing (e.g., convert your emails into Markdown prior to storage).
I spent a while setting up the mail processing backend using Postfix + a mail filter written in Rust.
I ultimately ended up scrapping the project because:
A) It didn’t seem like there was a large enough market of paying customers.
B) There already are a few services that do something like this, but with a focus on attachments.
- dump your gmail to gdrive with "google takeout"
- dump your gdrive with rclone (to some cloud service or whatever)
https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-it-possible-to-directly-backup...
I would never trust a 3rd party for this kind of project. But I like that you cannot edit your emails. It just feels more honest.
Now I am thinking of sending him hand written letters by mail. And just save them until he is old enough. I can add photos or his other favorite things in the letters. It would be a lot more fun to open these letters in the future instead of reading a text file.
I was very glad that they understood the mistake right away once I pointed it out.
So maybe you could become a paid user, then add that account to your family account?
But certainly, you should back that account up. And consider moving to another service.
I also have a regular ema backup script that backsup the inboxes so the emails are always available offline!
If this is true, this calls the whole notion of "Gmail security" (and more generally large third party email provider security) into question. Now think about all the changes Google makes in the name of "security". One misspelling or typo and it is all for naught. The mail is sent to another user.
Does it really make sense to use a free third party email provider like Google for important purposes. It seems like we are making identity theft even easier (not to mention online ad services). One thing we know is Google will not discourage use of Gmail for important matters linked to a real identity. They want more personal information, not less. Meanwhile Google discourages automated creation of accounts not linked to real identities, which would be safer if compromised.
I never contacted anyone about this for fear Google would just delete both accounts to save their own asses.
Still receive those emails to this day.
However recent times have convinced me that it's time to move away from the big ol G. This is space issue is one of them.
mailcow anyone?
At first I tried to rectify the mistakes but gave up due to lack of response.
There's also at least two alternative explanations.
I also get a lot of emails to an account I own from someone who keeps using my email instead of theirs. You'd think they would have noticed they aren't receiving them by now, but apparently not. Are you also totally sure that it's not just someone else entering an email address they don't own for work and party invites?
And for a second explanation, are you sure it wasn't hacked/stolen?
There's groups of people out there that bruteforce and then sell OG accounts, such as short twitter handles and common firstname.lastname email accounts.
The fact that the forwarding rules are still setup and working actually leads me to think it's more likely someone else stole the account rather than that it was deleted and recreated, assuming someone else really has access to it.
There's other possible ways your account could have been compromised too, like having a backup email address for it on some other email provider or domain that did go under or get compromised, but a weak password or a re-used password from a leak seem most likely for the compromise route.
Do you have evidence somehow that the account wasn't stole in that way?
The party invite was from a real person, not those evite sites.
I can no longer login to the old account and my recovery options no longer work.
While yes, the possibility of a hacked account crossed my mind, but Gmail is pretty loud when someone logs in from a new ip.
This has been atleast 2 years now.
Maybe I should call him. He isn't doing well with his realtor sales.
You're getting that other person's email because someone has the wrong address for them.
What does happen somewhat often though, is that people receive other people's mail because it's been misaddressed by the sender.
Once you hit the 15gb limit, you stop receiving emails within 24 hours. 2 years is plenty time versus "Hey. You are out of storage. In 24 hours, we're cutting off communication." [1]
Also, Gmail delivers an in-band message about your quota, but not in Inbox, Inbox for iOS, nor the Gmail app for iOS nor Gmail for mobile web. ONLY Gmail classic for desktop web. So I didn’t get those banners, either.
In other words I still find this quota system difficult to use despite the fact that I was the tech lead of Gmail delivery SRE for years.
If you search HN there is a quite interesting thread on it.