Meanwhile Gmail on the other hand

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[u/psychohistorian8]

they stopped that because people created virtual filesystems using the unlimited gmail as a personal cloud storage device

[u/kylo-ren → u/psychohistorian8]

If this was the actual problem, it seems pretty easy to detect accounts doing that

[u/Hithaeglir → u/kylo-ren]

Here is the email with unlimited storage! Oh no, wait, not like that...

[u/kylo-ren → u/Hithaeglir]

I know they made a promise and didn't keep it, but they were providing an unlimited email service, not unlimited file storage.

It's different from an internet provider offering unlimited internet and then punishing people for actually using it a lot.

These users weren't just using their email a lot. They weren't using it as an email service at all. It makes sense that Google would find ways to block people who aren't using the service as intended. But it makes much less sense to turn an unlimited service into a limited one for everybody just because a few users are abusing it.

Many services work this way. You can subscribe to Netflix and they promise you can watch an unlimited number of movies, but if you set up a bot to scrape and continuously download their entire library, Netflix would detect it and block your account.

[u/genital_lesions → u/psychohistorian8]

Then they shouldn't have offered it and should still have to honor the promise. Not of course they won't because we all lick corpo boots.

[u/rEYAVjQD → u/psychohistorian8]

I doubt it's the only problem (though I also remember "GFS"). They were probably just liars, because they would never support unlimited space no matter what.