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Re:Google “Free” Drive Storage Class Action Lawsuit by duskwuff on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:04AM (#24596327)
> They said with Gmail, all the email would be free, and infinite, and forever.

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.

Re:Google “Free” Drive Storage Class Action Lawsuit by cnst on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:36AM (#24596449)
They had big infographics that their storage was more than infinity.

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.

Re:Google “Free” Drive Storage Class Action Lawsuit by setr on Saturday September 26, 2020 @05:10AM (#24597433)
That link just suggests people mistook "free tier increases" for "infinite"... which isn't much of a promise