Where? Gmail's initial publicity all focused around the fact that it provided 1 GB of storage, and would slowly grow over time. I don't remember them ever promising "infinite" storage.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/gmail-hook...
> A big driver of the shift is Gmail. Google shook up the email business when Gmail launched in 2004 with much more free storage than rivals were providing at the time. It boosted the storage cap every couple of years, but in 2013 it stopped. People’s in-boxes kept filling up. And now that some of Google’s other free storage offers are shrinking, consumers are beginning to get nasty surprises.
2. As a freeloader, you are not in any contract with Gmail; this article is about Local Guides who did a form of work for Google, in exchange for a form of compensation, which is easily seen as a contract.
They said with Gmail, all the email would be free, and infinite, and forever. That you'd never have to delete email again.
Now I have to pay them 1,99 USD/mo just to continue using my email, even though the majority of the email in my mailbox are the public OSS mailing lists -- which could "easily" be compressed if they had wanted to.
P.S. I specifically checked for large attachments using the search -- almost nothing; Google quite literally makes me pay just to have access to searching the OSS mailing lists that I'm subscribed to.