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After five years of offering unlimited free photo backups at “high quality,” Google Photos will start charging for storage once more than 15 gigs on the account have been used. The change will happen on June 1st, 2021, and it comes with other Google Drive policy changes like counting Google Workspace documents and spreadsheets against the same cap. Google is also introducing a new policy of deleting data from inactive accounts that haven’t been logged in to for at least two years.
All photos and documents uploaded before June 1st will not count against that 15GB cap, so you have plenty of time to decide whether to continue using Google Photos or switching to another cloud storage provider for your photos. Only photos uploaded after June 1st will begin counting against the cap.
Google already counts “original quality” photo uploads against a storage cap in Google Photos. However, taking away unlimited backup for “high quality” photos and video (which are automatically compressed for more efficient storage) also takes away one of the service’s biggest selling points. It was the photo service where you just didn’t have to worry about how much storage you had.
Chaque semaine, 28 milliards de photos et vidéos sont ajoutées à Google Photos. Soit l'équivalent de 4 selfies par habitant de notre planète.
Voici ce que révèle la notification envoyée par Google à l'ensemble des utilisateurs de son service d'hébergement Google Drive.
On y relève également toutes les possibilités proposées à l'utilisateur pour récupérer de la place, comme la détection des photos floues, ou encore des photos de slides. L'idée, élégante de prime abord, repose sur des capacités de traitement et d'analyse d'images tout à fait intéressantes. Pourquoi ne pas imaginer de reconstituer des éléments de Google Slides par exemple ?
Un dernier élément — de portée symbolique — est la dénomination de "politique" qui dit quelque chose en creux de la représentation de puissance de Google & co.