I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as videos

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[–]PsychoTranyRedditMod 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Good.up until they apply a lossy compression algorithm.

[–]xoenix 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sounds like it deals with that (part of the reason it takes 9MB to store 7KB.) But yes, whatever Google does to your videos is unpredictable.

[–]PsychoTranyRedditMod 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Seems awfully inefficient, but I can see it having it's uses.

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I remember before Google Drive, someone built a cloud file system based on GMail.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They already do. This most likely does not work. Not just because of compression but because Google will detect and delete that shit.

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wtf like 90% of that page is ads. Almost every single paragraph is followed by an ad.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Plot twist he is using you to pay rent

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Used to do the same with Gmail until Google Drive came about.