| ▲ | Aerroon 6 hours ago |
| Google and Youtube, especially Youtube. |
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| ▲ | tedivm 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Google does not have unlimited. I had to pay to increase my storage. |
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| ▲ | samfriedman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Google Drive reneged on unlimited storage for Education accounts once they realized that universities also contain researchers who need to store huge amounts of data. | |
| ▲ | ValentineC 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Google forced everyone off their deprecated G Suite for Business plan (which had unlimited storage) and onto a Workspace plan. I had to give up and delete plenty of data because of this. That data was important to me, but not important enough to pay their ransom. |
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| ▲ | Chaosvex 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| YouTube is constantly reencoding videos to save space at the expense of older content looking like mud, so arguably even they're having their struggles. |
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| ▲ | bombcar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | We all know the "nobody has watched this video in ten years, login at least once or it'll be yeeted" email is coming, someday. | | |
| ▲ | computably an hour ago | parent [-] | | YT would have to start declining in growth pretty substantially for that to be the case. All the 360p video from 2010-2015 probably doesn't take up even 1% of the storage new videos added in 2025. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | True, it's more likely to be aimed at stemming the tide of 4k video that nobody watches - but luckily they're worth more than Disney right now so we don't have to confront that ... yet. |
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| ▲ | UltraSane 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | YouTube shorts are incredibly highly compressed. |
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