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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by Obscurity4340 on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:52PM (#38435560)
Why do people use it at all over companies that have an incentive to offer and maintain a superior cloud product?

Like why not Dropbox or Sync?

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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by dserodio on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:28PM (#38465573)
Many companies already pay for Google Workspace so Google Drive is included.

And for personal use, it's much cheaper than Dropbox.

I pay R$6.99/month for 100GB of Google storage (most of which is used by Google Photos), while Dropbox costs R$10/month for 50GB of storage and doesn't integrate very well with Google Photos.

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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by Obscurity4340 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @05:02PM (#38465935)
Not to be glib, but this episode is a little reminder of why that's not always the case. Priceless data now lost (if it is in fact conclusively/irreoverably lost) demonstrates that sometimes in life, its the free or cheap things that end up costing us the most :(
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