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Re:Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One” by ianstormtaylor on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:27PM (#17068088)
I think you're right, and that that be great in my opinion. I'd love for this to be the start of Google being less dependent on ads across some of their currently free products. If a "Google One" subscription guaranteed that Gmail and other services were no longer mined for ads, that would be a great thing. It might allow them to maintain the ads-based model for free users, while providing a single subscription for people who are willing to pay. In a way that offering subscriptions for each individual product wouldn't be feasible due to the complexity of marketing/managing so many at once.
Re:Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One” by modeless on Monday May 14, 2018 @02:36PM (#17068181)
> If a "Google One" subscription guaranteed that Gmail and other services were no longer indexed for ads

You can already pay for that for Gmail. You have been able to for years.

"we never collect or use data from G Suite services for any advertising purposes" https://gsuite.google.com/security/

Re:Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One” by icebraining on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:30PM (#17068650)
Gmail stopped being mined for ads last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14620608