• Willie@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Nah, that’s just toxic corporate stuff.

    It’s the same thing a lot of companies’ subscriptions do where they give you something extra over time so that they can take it away if you ever decide to try testing out another service. Normally it is something small though, like something decorative or just something saying that you’ve been a member for a long time, so at least they’re giving you something useful for them to take away later, or maybe that makes it worse, I dunno~

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      2 months ago

      It’s like post-marketing. You’re already a user/customer, but companies still want to put psychological hooks in you.

      Kind of reminds me of steam’s insane discounts or epic giving away games. That’s more geared toward bringing people in, maybe.

      I’d like to believe some instances of this sort of thing can be out of genuine appreciation for supporters, but I might just be naive… It is straight out of the abuser’s handbook.

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    2 months ago

    Is this a permanent 50?

    Edit: nevermind. Apparently, I can’t read.

  • Venator@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    Reminds me of when Gmail launched and people were excited that they had 10gb of storage for emails… 😅

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      2 months ago

      IIRC it the storage space expanding and we could even see that in real-time, that was amazing back then

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    1 month ago

    Weird I’ve only gotten 10gb per year for the last like 2-3 years

    granted, as a business acct Holder I think they just gave me 500gb extra a month or so back

    Edit: wtf I only got a 10gb bump again this year

  • Brad Boimler@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Honestly it’s just a cool perk for me I use proton and use all thier services the only one I don’t use is thier wallet but never had a issue. Works for my uses would love contact sync but I gave up on that and just self host EteSync on my Pi5.