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Comment by iamcalledrob | Hacker News Reader

The "Cloud Storage Full - ACTION REQUIRED" emails sure aren't helped by Google, who communicate in a similar way.

The amount of borderline harassment I get about my Google Drive being almost full is shocking.

They have really amped up the ferocity of the language they're using to try and extract money from you for Drive. No wonder spammers are copying that.

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On top of that, all these spam and phishing emails are sent through Google servers. About two thirds of spam I receive originates from Google, 12x more than AWS and 20x more than Microsoft. This is completely insane.

I remember when Google promised Gmail storage would increase (quote) "forever". A mind blowing at the time 1GB at launch in 2004 to 2GB only a year later. Then 4 GB in 2007. This was prime Google doing cool stuff constantly time. Up to 10 by 2012 and then they rolled up Drive and Photos to 15GB in 2013.

It hasn't moved since.

My usage hit ~90% 5 years ago and hasn't shifted since. Apparently Google lack the means to see this line doesn't intersect with 100%, and no action is required.

Thankfully they do have the means to change the wording of the emails I can't unsubscribe from. I don't know what the official reason is but the result is I have to modify my filters.

Apple are no better. Choose between a permanent nag notification on Settings, my most trusted app, or disabling backup of all the negligibly-sized data.

They know. They're hoping you don't notice the line doesn't intersect.

> No wonder spammers are copying that.

Are you sure it’s not the other way around?

Google and Microsoft got people hooked on free cloud storage. And now they want money for it.

Both spammers and google's mail is in my spam box in gmail... Both messages are very similar... And google's contain the classic urgency baits. Not being able to receive email and so on...

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