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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by lostlogin on Saturday June 24, 2017 @03:41AM (#14624767)
The storage offering was way way less than that when everyone here signed up, though it was still vastly greater than anything anyone else offered if memory serves.
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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by pferde on Sunday June 25, 2017 @09:31AM (#14629888)
Vastly indeed. There were even (one or two) pseudo-filesystems which used a Gmail account as a backend, because, hey, a free gigabyte!

I vaguely remember Google had to put their foot down to disallow such use, that's how popular those filesystems became.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by late2part on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:57PM (#14626918)
Agreed. I sort of figure that increase is due to bandwidth inflation and decreasing unit costs.
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