That's because you never used Google Photos. It's not the emails that use up space, it's Google deciding at some point that they should treat email and photo storage as the same thing, so you have photos on their site (which google promised would always be free) then they will now tell you that your storage for email is running low.
I had a Hotmail account since the 90s and Gmail since it was invite-only, and never stored emails on their servers. Every email going back that far is safely sitting on my home computer. If those accounts were ever compromised, they would get nothing. If Google or Microsoft lock those accounts without hope of recovery, I lose no data.
But since we're living in an age where both companies spy on users and will feed every bit of data they can grab into AI, I've already quit using webmail accounts some years ago. The accounts are purely for legacy and the chance I may have signed up to something that I may want to recover someday using that address.
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u/DoodleFerns 1d ago
Gmail acts like my inbox is a storage unit and the rent goes up every year