> Fast forward this year, my (legacy) Google account on which I had most of the photos/videos is now running out of space, so I first reduced the quality of uploaded photos/videos, then completely disabled the backup (I have another cloud backup anyway with Amazon Photos). And then I wanted to stop Google nag and annoy me 3 times a week with the "you almost have no more space in your account, buy Google One ASAP" thing.
You know, when Google came out with Gmail, their top comment was that 'You'd never run out of storage, ever'. That was their advertising reel.
And then, on Android, 'back up everything user-content' is turned on. And these days it's to grab as much data as possible, AND to then nag you to death with "your storage is running out".
I've got all my emails locally. I'm downloading my images, and what few files in Google docs are already copied.
Google is just a corpse being bandied around by advertisers and marketers to be made-believe as real.
You know, when Google came out with Gmail, their top comment was that 'You'd never run out of storage, ever'. That was their advertising reel.
And then, on Android, 'back up everything user-content' is turned on. And these days it's to grab as much data as possible, AND to then nag you to death with "your storage is running out".
I've got all my emails locally. I'm downloading my images, and what few files in Google docs are already copied.
Google is just a corpse being bandied around by advertisers and marketers to be made-believe as real.