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looks nice for extra online storage.

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or you can do what i do and use the above trick with about 10 gmail accounts.

..and break gmail tos and potentially loose all your data? Go right ahead ;]

Or just use Mozy and get 1GB free storage, get refferals and it's not hard to get more, and they do offer premium services now I beleive.

Rawr.

zogo wrote:..and break gmail tos and potentially loose all your data? Go right ahead ;]

Are you sure google even bothers checking if the users are breaking the TOS?

I'm willing to bet my os on it.
What's the point of a tos if it's not enforced? Google have done it before, they will again.

i believe google is pretty much strict about breaking their TOS,sample would be their adsense program..if they doubt you are cheating if you are not, they still gona delete your account.

Thank you for the link pugrit, i just signed up. I will test the service in the next few days.


Greetz Kero

If you use 1 account to store random files, such a anything less that 10MB (the max email attachment limit) im pretty sure that doesnt break the TOS.

Post the statement in the TOS that says that the above action does.

And if you dont back up important data locally anyways, you deserve to be burnt!

I use firefox extension gspace to manage all my files! Google is well aware that these apps exist and people are using them. If they didnt want it to happen anymore then they would block these apps access remote access.

So im guessing until Google clamps down on the source (ie the apps) then your data and your account should be pretty safe.

s41ted wrote:I use firefox extension gspace to manage all my files! Google is well aware that these apps exist and people are using them. If they didnt want it to happen anymore then they would block these apps access remote access.

Probably they use the browser's user agent. Then again they could see a pattern in the way such apps store their files. I do suppose they check for the usage of such programs, but for example only if someone uses an accounts purely for storage and uses it frequently to store large files.

s41ted wrote:Google is well aware that these apps exist and people are using them. If they didnt want it to happen anymore then they would block these apps access remote access.

They have done so before, in fact multiple times. Libgmail was useless many a time because of Google's changes to prevent its access however it is extremely difficult to block things like this while still allowing the average user general freedoms. This is particuarly so when the people they are fighting are as skilled as they are.

Tim wrote:

s41ted wrote:Google is well aware that these apps exist and people are using them. If they didnt want it to happen anymore then they would block these apps access remote access.

They have done so before, in fact multiple times. Libgmail was useless many a time because of Google's changes to prevent its access however it is extremely difficult to block things like this while still allowing the average user general freedoms. This is particuarly so when the people they are fighting are as skilled as they are.

Well there you go! didnt know that they tried. So why is gmail the popular one for file storage? yahoo's up to 1Gb now. does gmail provide an API for is gmail service? I couldn't find one.

Now thats a challenge. Yspace :p

Anyone want to join me and try?