WhatsApp backups on Android will soon count toward your Google Account storage

They've been playing the long game here...encroaching on your Drive storage for years

• Gmails didn't used to count towards storage
• Photos didn't used to count towards storage (unless stored in "Original" quality)

I'm wagering "Location Data" will be along soon. Then "number of passwords stored".

Next move will be "number of connected devices", even though that doesn't impact how much they have to store.

Finally they will get round to billing you on your number of individual body hairs (shaving in breach of T&Cs).

Google just placed one more token on the de-google my phone bin.

Funny you can go from magnanimous corp to greedy corp in a few short years.

Just remember they pay 20 Billion dollars every year to Apple just to be the default browser!

And then they reduce my allowed storage, make YouTube explode in ads, while they cancel products. It must be rough times for the little mega corp.

Let's hope we can export them too then! I stopped using WhatsApp a few years go, but it would be nice to have access to my chats, unencrypted... at the moment only iPhone users can do this

I hate that it's still not possible to set your own storage for backups. Neither WhatsApp nor Android's system backup support anything besides Google Drive.

Well I'm fucked.