Google Workspace is ending unlimited storage
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EDIT: One user claims to have 2 PB stored. Wow.
Need to backup the giant unwatched porn and movie collection somehow, and paying for that would be expensive, so pushing "unlimited" offers by companies as far as possible is a favorite past time of these people.
this isn't a mom and pa business people are "exploiting"
and by "exploiting", I mean exercising their rights under the contract the multi-billion dollar huge multi-national wrote
If restaurant offers a person an all you can eat buffet, and that person sits for 4 hours in an online eating competition, that person definitely has abused the offer made. Doesn't matter the contract's fine print.
of course it does, this is the entire basis of Western business
you write contract that benefits the other party more than yourself? well, tough shit
the company offered unlimited storage in a freely offered contract in exchange for money
their counterparty paid them and is expecting to have unlimited storage to use
the only person being immoral here is the entity that marketed their service as unlimited when they had no intention of providing it
Now here comes a single person with an intent to exploit service meant for another customer. And it happens quite often: "is there anything in the TOS that considers this particular use as against its terms?" The user makes a determination that it does not and proceeds to sign up. After excessive use, the provider determines this kind of use is not something it can help with and changes the terms.
> you write contract that benefits the other party more than yourself? well, tough shit
That is the abusers perspective. And he knows well that whatever he is doing is not kosher. It's like going to home depot with a generous return policy and abusing their policy. How long do you expect that to go on? Home depot changes its policy for seasonal equipment that it needs to be returned within a set time. The abusers expected this.
this typical modus operandi of giving away stuff for free or at a loss until everyone is dead, the ground is salted and nothing grows, is toxic and bad for end users.
When my employer first provisioned Workspaces accounts for us (Enterprise tier, I assume), I inquired whether there was some sort of quota for our individual accounts, and I was assured that there is not. However, there is definitely some sort of number assigned, which GMail displays, and it tells me I'm using XXX MiB of an XXX TiB allocation, which I assume is org-wide.
So we've recently seen Google acknowledge that there is a practical and administrative limit on the number of objects (files) in Drive, so which services are affected by this alleged crackdown (which has absolutely no proof or tangible evidence, just the claims of a bunch of "data hoarders" on a pseudonymous forum.)