Comment Re:oajds (Score 4, Insightful) 175
What I'd be interested to see is if, and how aggressively, they take action against image collections that are not of any use for their desired purposes.
They obviously can't be too capricious and unpredictable, or they'll spook users; but you can't offer 'unlimited' storage without making some provision for 'that guy who hacks together a FUSE filesystem that uses images uploaded to Google Photos as a storage medium' or the 'Cool, this will make my next time-lapse video project way easier' cases.(and, of course, if you are feeling particularly uncreative,
Their track record on removing useful and loved services for little or no reason should spook users well enough without playing games with the content.