Comment Counts against quota... (Score 1) 28
What they try to hide is that enabling that option will count 100% of the backed up content against your quota.
Have a 100GB plan? And an almost full 128GB SD card? Time to upgrade cause your 100GB quota just filled up!
The beauty for Google is that you don't have fine grain control over the backup and no direct access to it's contents (only a full restore gives you indirect access).
It means they can safely offload this data into the lowest performance and lowest cost archive section with really great duplication profit factor while at the same time maxing out your quota with useless data so that you will be required to upgrade yet again in order to still get your emails (the whole idea of bundling data quota is so they can hold their "infinity+1" email hostage, aka evil google).
F#ck you Google.
Have a 100GB plan? And an almost full 128GB SD card? Time to upgrade cause your 100GB quota just filled up!
The beauty for Google is that you don't have fine grain control over the backup and no direct access to it's contents (only a full restore gives you indirect access).
It means they can safely offload this data into the lowest performance and lowest cost archive section with really great duplication profit factor while at the same time maxing out your quota with useless data so that you will be required to upgrade yet again in order to still get your emails (the whole idea of bundling data quota is so they can hold their "infinity+1" email hostage, aka evil google).
F#ck you Google.
