Proton giving more to the free plans
Proton giving more to the free plans
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I still remember how ludicrous it was when Gmail offered 1GB for free. What did Hotmail give us? Like 50Mbs?
68 0 ReplyI remember when Google offered "unlimited" for free.
51 0 ReplyThey still do if you can store data as a video file on Youtube.
28 0 ReplyWrite your data as base64 string and scroll it star wars intro style. Bam, unlimited storage on Google via YouTube once you write an ocr to base64 decoder.
27 1 Replyim sure there are some image steganography techniques that could also apply to video. i'd be very surprised if there aren't people hiding data in videos already.
21 0 ReplyThere are. A few months ago I've seen a Github project aimed at exactly that, already functional at the time
P.S. found https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch
16 0 ReplyUntil your video gets compressed — anything that damages the pixels would probably destroy the data completely.
7 0 ReplyI’ve definitely seen image steganography techniques that survive lossy compression.
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I'm pretty sure I have 1TB of storage on yahoo email.
...Yahoo though, so I'm moving to proton
7 0 Reply@grue @AbsurdityAccelerator Google bad.
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I started with Hotmail back when it was 2 mb.
17 0 ReplyWow. I guess we didn't really send attachments that often back then and 2mb was plenty.
7 0 ReplyWell and the attachments we did send were rarely anywhere close to 2MB. Uploading 2MBs on dial-up was TORTURE, especially my shitty rural dial-up.
11 0 ReplySpending fuckin a half hour to download a shitty quality mp3 of FFVIII Eyes on Me using a download resumer after it fuCKING FAILED FOR THE THIRD TIME
IT’S ONLY A COUPLE MEGS HOLY ASS
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I think it was 15mb but don't really remember fully
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