• sgibson5150@slrpnk.net
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    14 hours ago

    Way back when it was SkyDrive, for some reason I was given some huge (for the time) amount of space “for life”. Can’t remember why. For being a Windows dev maybe? Idk.

    Some years later, I did an Office sub for a couple years, which also came with OneDrive space. When I let the Office sub expire, the fuckers took away my lifetime space. Cunts.

    • sasquash@sopuli.xyz
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      14 hours ago

      If I remember correctly skydrive had unlimited storage with a paid plan at first. but ofc some guys uploaded terabytes of data so they eventually got rid of the unlimited plan.

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          56 minutes ago

          The amount of people that actually use a huge amount is pretty small, which is why Backblaze can still offer unlimited storage to this day

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          12 hours ago

          A classic case of having their cake (the marketing benefits of offering unlimited storage) and eating it too (not wanting anyone to use any storage)

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      14 hours ago

      Probably just an automated system, they’d have probably given it back if you said something.

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        11 hours ago

        Often saying something can be a huge hassle, so if they didn’t it’s completely understandable. Especially true if their time is worth more than the subscription.