[thatguy0900]

This isn't a goodwill issue, Google isn't a charity. This is a product they sell for a profit. They are selling something, unlimited storage, and getting mad when people use it as unlimited storage. If they can't make a profit doing that, which they obviously can't, then they shouldnt advertise it as such. Why am I supposed to take pity on the plight of Googles marketing department?

[tw04]

Because you're ruining it for everyone. You're the guy that goes into the bathroom at a rest stop (in Europe, where you pay to use them), smears feces all over the wall, then proclaims "It's a public bathroom that I paid good money to enter, they didn't say what was and wasn't acceptable behavior in the bathroom".

The fact that they didn't explicitly tell you not to store 8PB of data on a service that costs $12/mo doesn't preclude you using COMMON SENSE. "But nobody told me" stopped being an excuse when you were in preschool.

[Dylan16807]

Just for reference: For someone using the service properly, no loopholes to get around the 750GB/day upload limit, it would take 30 account years to upload 8PB.

[thatguy0900]

Except the advertising for the bathroom in this case says pay $12 and smear feces as much as you want. Thats what google did. They said unlimited.

[tw04]

Not even a little bit. Google is advertising "public restroom" and you're saying "well they didn't actually say I had to go IN THE TOILET". No, they didn't say that, because they expected you to use basic common sense.

You link me to Google suggesting people setup a 24/7 cam stream rip dumping directly to their drive and I'll go ahead and concede it's the equivalent of "please smear feces on our walls".

Spend 5 minutes on r/datahoarder and you see people writing scripts to bypass built-in upload limits to try to gently impose "social norms" on people. Just don't be that guy...

[chromedev]

The unlimited was actually capped at 1PB

[CyberDildonics]

Google should be able to set proper boundaries by now, either with a number, through data transfer rates or both. They have every technical option to set limits wherever they need them. Don't blame users for a flawed system.