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[โ€“] Vent@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Once upon a time, Google offered unlimited drive storage as part of some GSuite tiers. They stopped offering it a while ago and have kicked most/all legacy users off of it in the past few months. It was glorious while it lasted ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess they ran everyone out of business that they needed to, so now the premium features get yanked and your choice of alternatives is curtailed. Hooray for enshittification.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 8 points 1 year ago

It's not that, it's that people were abusing it by using it for things like Plex with 100TB+ of data, which cost Google more than the revenue they got as a result. Blame the people that abused the policy. They're not a charity and can't keep an offer if they lose money as a result. Keep in mind that Google Drive data has several replicas and is also backed up to cold storage on LTO tapes, so people abusing the storage policy is actually pretty expensive for them .

They do still have unlimited data in some cases, for example with custom plans for large companies (like 50k+ employees).

And Google docs/sheets/slides used to not count in your used space.

[โ€“] icedterminal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

At one point they offered unlimited storage for Play Music only. You could literally upload your entire collection. They changed it later to consume your Drive storage. Cheap enough plans so I subscribed. Then they killed off Play Music. I'm still salty about that.