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> Fuck google, for reneging on the arrangement after 14+ years. FWIW, 14 years is a great time to get something for free. Should they have a cheaper family pla

• metadat 5y ago
  Is google hurting for cash or resources? No. Are us little guys currently being nickel and dimed until we're nice and emaciated? Yes. Pandemic. Inflation. Rising taxes. War. And Google chooses now to start milking us even more. Despite the reality being that it is us, the users, who are the real product. Google top brass: What a disgusting and merciless bunch. Turns out the goal of "user delight" was just a carrot to trick the engineers to build the machine.
• justsomehnguy 5y ago
  > But expecting that they provide a free service, forever seems a bit much It's not free however you want to paint it so. You are a product there and you have a service in exchange of a permission to use their service.
• skinnymuch 5y ago
  They stated in writing this is free. There was nothing about it going away after 14 years. It’s understandable if the product ceases to exist. But besides technicalities, the product is obviously still Alive. If we aren’t to except the service for free, then should we assume everything Google says is a lie? What am I to expect when Google says something concrete This is not like other killed products where a promise of free serbice was stated. And the product isn’t being killed off just upgraded.