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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Honestly Google Drive works great as free storage (Though for large storage there's no guarantee they won't accidentally delete it, it's happened before).

And Google Suite is good enough if you can't be bothered to get Microsoft Office. Though they're forcing AI into it and have some weird quirks like being unable to copypaste external text with rightclick.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

May I ask what Google Drive has that other free cloud storage things don't? As in what makes it work great?

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd say convenience and shareability. I come across far more dead Dropbox links than dead Google Drive links.

And Onedrive is further down in enshittification than Drive. Like windows relentlessly trying to reenable and reinstall without permission.

Overall I like it cause it's just there and works. But I wholeheartedly would not recommend it for business applications (without backups at least). There have been instances of companies data just getting deleted or randomly banned from their google account.

In essence, I would not pay for upgraded storage.

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