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> I kinda wonder how many Gmail users now pay Google for more storage space just to cover their email archive... Gmail’s storage space has consistently grown o

by derefr 5y ago

> I kinda wonder how many Gmail users now pay Google for more storage space just to cover their email archive... Gmail’s storage space has consistently grown over the years to keep up with the average user’s demand. Google don’t want to do anything — like charging for email storage — that would disincentivize their mass of sensors^H users from feeding them ever more data. (If you’re an outlier with way more storage than usual, they’ll happily charge you, knowing that the data point you represent is mostly going to get pruned out of their models anyway.)

ocdtrekkie 5y ago
This was previously true. Free storage at Google hasn't increased from 15 GB since 2013. (I have a few promotional bonuses that bring me up to about 19 GB, but it's been that way for... over half a decade without increase.) Personally, my Google storage is mostly full, even though I haven't used Google Drive or Gmail since 2016, and have removed much of my personal content since then. Also, now they're actually effectively decreasing everyone's storage. Previously, Google Drive document types and Google Photos didn't count towards that 15 GB limit. They will as of June 1st, 2021: https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/ https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/ So, while cloud storage usage has exploded over the past eight years, Google's storage limits have not only not expanded to meet it, they've actually begun to tighten the belt.