<story><title>Google clamps down on free storage</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>This article seems awfully doom and gloom.  I find that:&lt;p&gt;- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data.  If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want.  I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn&amp;#x27;t need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space.  I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn&amp;#x27;t need to because of the above.&lt;p&gt;- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3&amp;#x2F;month I&amp;#x27;ve been spending.  Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time.  Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispinb</author><text>I found it good value until they removed local syncing of Google Photos from their Gdrive client. That was where most of my data was. Making it only accessible via a web form download was a huge product downgrade that I don&amp;#x27;t think a more customer-responsive company would have risked. So I cancelled my subs &amp;amp; won&amp;#x27;t be going back (I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;re quaking in their billionaire boots).</text></comment>
<story><title>Google clamps down on free storage</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>This article seems awfully doom and gloom.  I find that:&lt;p&gt;- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data.  If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want.  I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn&amp;#x27;t need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space.  I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn&amp;#x27;t need to because of the above.&lt;p&gt;- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3&amp;#x2F;month I&amp;#x27;ve been spending.  Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time.  Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>&amp;gt; If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it,&lt;p&gt;This is what I&amp;#x27;m doing to migrate my data over to Microsoft&amp;#x27;s offering (I get adfree mail and 1TB + office products that work offline). I&amp;#x27;m just waiting for Microsoft to let me use a domain without GoDaddy, so I can use the email, but I&amp;#x27;m more likely to use it for storage.</text></comment>