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    The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending

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    4. ExceptionEX on

      Shitty headline, ugh, you get 15 gigs with a real phone associated with the account, and 5 gigs if you sign up without one.

    5. N64PLAY10 on

      You really should have a verified number on any account you access for two factor authentication. Bit of a non article really, security should be important for anything you do online

    6. Brave_Speaker_8336 on

      I wonder what the overlap is between people who need more than 5 GB and people who dont have a phone number

    7. noblestation on

      I remember back when you had to be invited by a Gmail member to make a Gmail account. Never thought I’d ever fill up my Gmail, but I guess a decade **or two*** will do that. (Pretty sure I cleared it out 5 years ago).

    8. OriginalGoat1 on

      Way back when, I remember Google said that their email storage was unlimited. Admittedly, that was also the period when 100 MB mail quota was considered huge

    10. mqtgew on

      Free Gmail storage was one of the last big perks on the internet. Feels like the end of an era

    11. stevekez on

      Shove an unwanted 4gb weights file in with your browser but nooo, can’t give cloud space for emails because space is precious.

    12. mrhobbles on

      Back in my day you had to be invited, and the allowed storage ticked up by the second in a very visible public facing counter. There were so many articles about how it was continuously increasing, and as such “nobody would ever fill up their Gmail”.

      How times change.

    13. Bonechatters on

      Jokes on them, I have 19GBs free. For some years they gave away 2GBs for users completing security check-ins.

    16. Ellemeno on

      Y’all probably didn’t even know Yahoo Mail used to give you 1TB of free email storage, but some months ago they were like you know what, we take it back, you can only have 20GB. You have over 100GB of emails? Sounds like that’s your problem.

      I used to like using Yahoo Mail, but when they updated to their new interface, it went to absolute horseshit, so I don’t even care that 1TB free storage is no longer available. It’s often impossible to find emails with a simple keyword search and their advanced search parameters were neutered for whatever reason. And don’t get me started on the countless glitches when trying to compose and send and email…

    17. jake6501 on

      This is avery important detail that is missing from the title: “Users can “unlock” the full 15GB of free storage by adding a phone number to their account.” So basically they are just making it more difficult to get unlimited free storage trough multiple accounts.

    18. LeeKingbut on

      If this really ends, I want physical copies of all my games , music and other software back.

    19. ElectroBot on

      It would be nice if they FINALLY gave us the option to NOT upload every video from phone (on iOS, not sure if Android has that option) when doing the PHOTO SYNC.

      Also WHY do they not add per family member limits of how much they can use of the family’s storage???

    20. funderfulfellow on

      I have many emails with large attachments. Is there a way to delete the attachments, but keep the email (ie; text)?

    21. tiacay on

      We gradually back to local storage for personal data. I never truly have faith with cloud storage.

    22. girtlander on

      Now they’ve finished running LLM on your email, they want you to pay for it.

    24. Top_Push_4331 on

      remember when google’s whole thing was “don’t be evil.” now it’s “don’t be free”

    26. Grandtosh on

      tl;dr: you still get 15gb if you link your phone number, otherwise you get 5gb. Applies to new signups

    27. Unfair-Plastic-4290 on

      remember when they used to advertise the storage limit grew with you?

    29. JoshAllentown on

      I’d never hit 15GB if Google Photos would stop turning sync back on automatically when I get a new phone, and then not deleting the photos from the app without deleting them from the device.