enu@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood Forwww.techdirt.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down111cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareOdo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoBefore Gmail, my old Hotmail account had a whopping 2MB of storage, and others were similarly small. Gmail was a few GB right from the start, forcing the rest to compete and offer more storage.
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoMaking quality stuff for free does not mean they were not doing shady things in the background. I have no plan to boycott Google or anything, but they were nwver benevolent and usage has always been a tradeoff of data tracking for convenience.
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Before Gmail, my old Hotmail account had a whopping 2MB of storage, and others were similarly small. Gmail was a few GB right from the start, forcing the rest to compete and offer more storage.
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Making quality stuff for free does not mean they were not doing shady things in the background.
I have no plan to boycott Google or anything, but they were nwver benevolent and usage has always been a tradeoff of data tracking for convenience.