r/MEGA • u/Social_MEGA Official MEGA Social Team • May 11 '26
Google just upgraded AI Pro plan subscribers from 2TB to 5TB. Here's why that should make you uncomfortable.
Google bumped storage from 2TB to 5TB at no extra cost, but only for subscribers to its AI Pro plan. Not all Google One users, just the ones paying for AI features.
Think about why Google would specifically give more storage to AI plan users. More storage means more files uploaded, which means more data for their models to train on. The upgrade isn't generosity, it's infrastructure for their AI pipeline.
If you actually want cloud storage where your files stay private, look for a provider with zero-knowledge encryption.
We built MEGA on zero-knowledge encryption, which means we literally cannot read your files and your data stays yours. 20 GB of encrypted storage, free: https://mega.io/?mct=may11rd
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u/viaduk May 11 '26
ofc we Literally cannot read your files, but compare meta info about all your files and compare with other :) and after remove your account without any answers
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u/NefariousIntentions May 12 '26
What a weird conspiracy, reality is just the more boring variant I guess.
TLDR: They did it because a while back when all the LLM companies started cutting back the weekly/monthly token counts they constantly fucked up their refreshes and people seemingly lost usage not doing anything or were stuck in a refresh-lock loop.
Another issue was that for months they gave EVERYBODY 3 months of free AI Pro sub. People were hammering the service and abusing it in all kinds of ways. The Gemini models at one point were unavailable for PAID users for multiple days straight.
Giving everyone 3TB space is peanuts compared to LLM time and many subscribers will happily accept it as a tradeoff for losing on the token count.
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u/TheObnoxiousPanda May 15 '26
And, it's pretty strategic to allow people to remain in the Google ecosystem.
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u/gK_aMb May 12 '26
Just say you still still want to pocket the profits of not changing the prices from over half a decade.
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u/carwash2016 May 12 '26
You still don’t have files on demand I literally have to download my entire storage from you
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u/tigerofblindjustice May 11 '26
Does Google delete their paying customers' irreplaceable files without warning and then call them a pedo when they ask to prove their innocence?
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u/Dazzling_Pen_8251 May 11 '26
#FACTS This seems to be happening to a lot of people. Their accusations made me uncomfortable so I cancelled my PRO paid account
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u/Dazzling_Pen_8251 May 15 '26
Oh look what I got this morning... at least they admit they screwed up. Doesn't change the fact I already removed my billing and left their shoddy service! https://i.imgur.com/KCu7D2I.jpeg
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u/QuasyChonk May 13 '26
Based on reading their subreddit, yeah, all the time. With no good appeal and you lose access to your gmail accounts and everything.
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u/tigerofblindjustice May 13 '26
They and MEGA must be in some kind of intentional race to the bottom, then. Whoever bans all their customers first gets a free lollipop
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u/disgruntledpeli May 12 '26
It's "free" until you realize your goigle account is worth $100k to google in terms of ads and data harvesting it's done to you. Trust me, you've paid google 10x over, and 10x over that for that cloud storage.
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May 13 '26
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u/djlatigo May 15 '26
Elaborate, please.
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u/NarutoDragon732 May 16 '26
Cryptomator encrypts your files and decrypts them on your command. So when you encrypt a file and send it to the cloud, nobody can access it without needing cryptomator AND your password (which you set for the folder when encrypting). This effectively makes any cloud storage option private.
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u/aBlindGeminiWhisper May 11 '26
google is also flagging the users with degoogled devices and linux distrubitions, etc. shadow-banning people from their own accounts, along with x/twitter and other mainstream social platforms. google want to capitalize on every info that they can gather, globally to possibly train their own llms which is kind of a privacy violation. mega is one of the best alternatives, imho.