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Because they are known for bait and switch; and even worse bait and shutdown? One bad click, or their AI screwing up might lock you out of all your photos and entire Google a/c? Among numerous other reasons.

So while at it move away from one more Google service.

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Is the bait an switch comment fair? Google have offered free photos for years and obviously the storage requirements must be growing huge. A business needs to be able to change.

Also haven't they said on both the big changes anything in the past will be held as legacy under free and future uploads will go to storage? I think you have to accept business needs to adapt models sometimes and Google Photos is more this than bait and switch.

Fair call on the lockout. This is a real issue for Google.

They starved out any other provider who could offer photo storage with their free storage. Now they discover they need to charge for it.

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