Well, that depends on context. Let’s say it makes less sense if you built your entire userbase on the back of handing off free storage for decades only to reverse course later after you’ve amassed a captive userbase in the literal billions of people.
But hey, I’m not gonna relitigate enshittification now. We all know.
FWIW, my current Whatsapp backup is 4GB, 1.5 without video backup. Google Drive gives out 20 for free, but they already made the same move regarding Gmail storage, so most of that is full. I have a paid account, but it’s a work account and my personal chat logs do not belong there. Not using whatsapp is not an option. Just this week my vet sent me text messages over it. They didn’t ask if I use it, they just assumed it because, again, captive audience in the billions. Whatsapp is just how texting works here.
Also I just checked my own WhatsApp backup space, it’s just shy of 500mb with videos. Good for me I guess! I really don’t use WhatsApp that much compared to Telegram.
Well, that depends on context. Let’s say it makes less sense if you built your entire userbase on the back of handing off free storage for decades only to reverse course later after you’ve amassed a captive userbase in the literal billions of people.
But hey, I’m not gonna relitigate enshittification now. We all know.
FWIW, my current Whatsapp backup is 4GB, 1.5 without video backup. Google Drive gives out 20 for free, but they already made the same move regarding Gmail storage, so most of that is full. I have a paid account, but it’s a work account and my personal chat logs do not belong there. Not using whatsapp is not an option. Just this week my vet sent me text messages over it. They didn’t ask if I use it, they just assumed it because, again, captive audience in the billions. Whatsapp is just how texting works here.
google drive gives out 20? I only have 15
Maybe I got grandfathered in? I don’t know, at some point obscuring their own rules became part of the dumb playbook of all these tech corpos.
Eh, I thought Google gave 15GB, not 20GB?
Also I just checked my own WhatsApp backup space, it’s just shy of 500mb with videos. Good for me I guess! I really don’t use WhatsApp that much compared to Telegram.
My free account reports 19. Like I said above, I may have grandfathered in to a different amount or it may be regional or who knows.