Received this message from Google One about changes to my subscription (located in US). If they’re “expanding access” of some features to all users AND phasing out other benefits all that’s left is cloud storage and a 3% Google store discount which is a joke. They need to adjust these prices if they’re going to just offer bare bones features. Between this and Google Podcast app being shut down, I’m officially over it.
I think I am going to drop Google One. I have paid for 100 GB since its inception. I just cleaned out all of the junk in my Drive and noticed I am only using 3 GB.
I subscribe to it because I need the storage. The other things were just perks. I have a Pixel, so I alrady get some of the editing features and stuff anyway. I think that it is nice they will be making those features available to more people. Google has a history of gradually releasing features like that for free and I figured they would be doing it again anyway. Google one storage is already quite inexpensive.
Maybe Google One should be a little more expensive and include YouTube Premium , have an all in one subscription.
I’m so angry at them for removing the VPN.
Instead of improving it or implementing useful stuff they are giving us photo editing tools no one cares about and making things free for all google photos users?
Truly someone explain to me what is the point of a google one subscription other than storage, I couldn’t care less about their photo/video editing ai tools
This needs refactoring.
Looking forward to the day Sundar and his obsession with killing or removing features leave Google once and for all.
Man, I JUST found out about the VPN and it’s been great to have. I don’t need anything crazy… just want to be able to listen to Soondcloud while at work and it was nice to have this easily installed on all my devices.
I’m genuinely bum’d about that.
I’m actually subscribed only because of the storage, maybe this is true for most users? Seems they are adjusting the service to their usage data.
The free shipping on physical prints seems kinda random here, and I wonder how profitable it was - shipping costs I saw started at $2+, the entire subscription is $5 and it already gave you the storage and the VPN.
But the VPN removal sucks, if you were using it. I would assume it’s easy for them to run, and choosing from all the various brands is tedious, nearly impossible to tell which one is shady and which one is legit too. Might throw people right into the hands of some shady VPN provider.
Were there any stats of how many people used the Google VPN? I honestly didn’t know it existed or whether it was a part of the Standard 200GB plan.
We are going to strip away features and not drop the price or increase your storage space. I’ll be stopping my subscription when it runs out. Already looking for more private google photo alternatives
Removing VPN from Google One is the dumbest thing that could do to this service. I predict a lot of users are unsubscribing because of the removal of VPN.
It’s a literal slap on the face.
I tried using the google one vpn on my iPhone but it destroyed my battery and interfered with CarPlay
I’m in the US and see nothing between 200gb and 2tb.
True but if you take the perks away then adjust the pricing as well. It’s not ridiculously expensive, I’m just venting.
Wow only 3 gig? Do you have all your photos on an external drive? I love Google photos, so not sure I want to give that up
You dont have photos?
I’m currently on a yearly 100 plan. I have actively switched to OneDrive which I do think is better. The feature set might be better with Google (just for the drive) but they problem is they can’t just leave shit alone. I only just switched to a P8Pro from iPhone, I think I’m gonna switch back when my contract is up.
Yeah, paying $3 for a 200GB/ $5 for a 500GB storage you can access from everywhere and that you know is virtually guaranteed not to be lost, unlike a HDD, is not that bad at all.
Honestly, who has a RAID 1 mirrored storage, regularly checks their SMART values (I’m gonna do that right now though), or even just bothers with making proper backups. A lot of the data in people’s homes survives only by hoping the drive will not die.
NOOOOO
not everything needs to be an expensive subscription.