Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, November 12th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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So the free ride is over. Google has announced it will end its unlimited photos storage on June 1st of next year,

thereafter imposing a new 15 gigabyte cap before they ask you to pay up for more storage.

But before you freak out, photos and documents uploaded before that date, June 1st of 2021, will not count against the cap, quoting the

verge.

All photos and documents uploaded before June 1st will not count against that 15 gigabyte 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

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 these

services biggest selling points. It was the photo service where you just didn't have to worry about

how much storage you had. As a side note, pixel owners will still be able to upload high

quality, not original photos for free after June 1st, without those images

counting against their cap. It's not as good as the pixels original

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