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I paid for Amazon Drive in order to do backups, some of them with rclone. I am not using Amazon Drive for commercial purposes.

They said Unlimited storage, they should provide Unlimited storage, otherwise it's false advertising.

In other words, I hate apologists.

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they are providing unlimited storage sure, but they also say they can terminate your account at any moment for any reason.

If you stop to think about this part for a second you will realize this service is completely inadequate for backups.

I agree, if you want to hold them to their word then you should include all of them. They agreed to unlimited storage at their discretion, and so did you.

The difference here is they splash "Unlimited" on their website in 32 point font in the 1 sentence summary, and put "at our discretion" buried in their 2500 word terms of service. If they want to operate the service under those terms, fine, but they should have to advertise "as little as 0 bytes of storage", not "unlimited".

This is easy to solve: make font size legally binding. If 2 statements in an advertisement don't agree on something, the more visible statement should overwrite the other

No, they should stop providing unlimited storage. What a dumb idea. Or charge people on bandwidth. TANSTAAFL.

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