Google: GDrive - free 5 Gigs to rival dropbox!

[rh71]

heh, right after i rewatched anti trust...

hah I just rewatched that the other day too. Way ahead of its time.

 

[rh71]

Yea the free unlimited photo storage is all I use Google+ for. It's great for that. I just have my Galaxy Nexus auto-upload at night, plus I uploaded about 8GB of pictures from my computer.

interesting, I just tested an upload on G+ and they compress/resize your pic. If you're using it to backup all your pics, don't you want it in original res? Is there a way to re-download the originals?

They are certainly scanning the contents of your files, thats how dropbox works.

https://www.dropbox.com/privacy#privacy ??? they talk about data that you provide, cookies, etc. but nothing about actually going through your actual files. What's your proof? It's not like they even advertise to you. Why would that be how it works?

 

[WelshBloke]

interesting, I just tested an upload on G+ and they compress/resize your pic. If you're using it to backup all your pics, don't you want it in original res? Is there a way to re-download the originals?

All Photos up to 2048x2048 are free unlimited, larger ones have limited storage and are resized or you can buy more storage.

Edit: In answer to your edit, thats the way dropbox works. The files are scanned to check for duplicates, if theres a duplicate it uses the previously uploaded file, no matter who uploaded it.

 

[trmiv]

interesting, I just tested an upload on G+ and they compress/resize your pic. If you're using it to backup all your pics, don't you want it in original res? Is there a way to re-download the originals?

Yea 2048x2048 max size. These are snapshots, I really don't care if it compresses them.

 

[Gothgar]

Not bad

 

[rh71]

All Photos up to 2048x2048 are free unlimited, larger ones have limited storage and are resized or you can buy more storage.

Edit: In answer to your edit, thats the way dropbox works. The files are scanned to check for duplicates, if theres a duplicate it uses the previously uploaded file, no matter who uploaded it.

scanning filenames is different than digging through the contents within the files themselves. Can Google do that?

 

[WelshBloke]

scanning filenames is different than digging through the contents within the files themselves. Can Google do that?

I hope they do more than just filenames otherwise its going to be a crappy service.

Can Google do what?

 

[freegeeks]

/this
they already have to much of my information

encryption

 

[rh71]

I hope they do more than just filenames otherwise its going to be a crappy service.

Can Google do what?

What I'm suggesting is Dropbox only knows what files are being kept on their servers, without the ability to crawl within the files (ie. an excel sheet's contents). What reason do they have for doing that since they don't do targeted ads and don't seem to sell for them either. As mentioned, they only try to make money by selling extra storage to premium users.

I figure Google is very capable of doing that type of data mining... and will because that's the type of business they are.

 

[lothar]

Word and your post in that thread being the most relevant. Tripled my Dropbox storage overnight with more room to move when I need it :thumbsup:

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