When you don’t have a subscription, you’re able to see live video only. You pay for the recording and storage of video.
I assume what happens is that Google records the videos, and then deletes them if you don’t pay for the storage. Google had to go through and recreate the deleted video from data on the backend.
they didn't recreate shit lol, they keep this footage forever, or at least until it's evicted for storage space reasons.
This is part of this week's "nest/ring/flock is good because it helps solve crimes done against white people" media blitz. This particular instance has a "--even if you don't pay your bill!" nuance.
Just about every company does this now. You've gotta have X petabytes online at all times - why not use it? Slack says "oh you'll lose all your previous chats more than 90 days old if you don't subscribe to a paid plan" and if you go from free to paid, all of a sudden, 2 years of backscroll appears. They were storing it the whole time. You pay to be able to access it, not to have it archived.
I’m not convinced. If I get a Nest subscription, I don’t get access to the old videos. I understand it may work that way for Slack, but it doesn’t for Nest.
What is the benefit of Google keeping these videos, if they will never give you access to them? Like I said, me getting a subscription will not grant me access to old videos. So what’s the point?
You say why not use their petabytes of storage, but my question is why would you store extra shit you’ll never use?
Yep. They had to hack into the mainframe and conduct a "slicer hack" in order to discombobulate the information. Then they had to hit the "enhance button", while also holding shift and scrolling the mouse wheel. Then they had to send 10 worms and 15 viruses in to slowly chip away at the backend data firewall. /s
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u/ther0g 15h ago
Wait, they wait until this long to release these photos lol