About 10 years ago I got $100 for free to use on AdSense. I used it for fun not realizing it keeps going and then billed me. Since then I basically don't use any Google paid products. Hope that $250 was worth it.
That's... pretty much how every free trial works? Try signing up for a free month of Amazon Prime or Netflix and see what happens. The entire point of the promotion is retention.
It wasn't a subscription. My expectation was that it would simply stop once it hit $0. Not really here to argue about it. The tldr is I don't trust Google with this stuff anymore.
The article mentions "Building software at Google's scale is extraordinarily difficult...", which I've seen many times before when one or another of these big corporations has a serious security flaw.
If a company like Google, with its ability to attract the best of the best, cannot handle the complexity of security and safety with SaaS/PaaS products, at what point do we say that perhaps this sector needs much more oversight?
It’s pretty much a daily occurrence in all three of the big cloud subs that people still learning get wiped out because the clouds refuse to provide appropriate safeguards
Why spend resources on enterprise customers who have millions to spend on infra when they can just rely on obfuscation to make newbies pay hundreds if not thousands?
I’m very careful with Google and co since they’re so intent on infinite scaling access to your wallet