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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-02-15 19:17:03

While helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM

@a@paperbay.org
2026-01-07 17:35:57

Who is live streaming on X?
#eu #gafam

Live streaming on X
@Marwe@troet.cafe
2026-01-20 09:10:53

Es hätte eine positive Note, wenn Trump die #EU bis dahin reizt, die großen Techunternehmen zu sanktionieren. Darunter sind die bislang in Irland ansässigen und dort leider faktisch unregulierten #GAFAM. Die dabei entstehenden Abnabelungsschmerzen könnten einen guten Schub für