Comment by debugnik
5 hours ago
> it started backing up photos until the paltry free tier was reached
How could everyone fill their 15 GiB quota when IIRC by default it only backups the camera roll with lossy compression? Also I've never heard of accounts getting disabled for filling the quota.
FYI I am notoriously bad at taking photos (as is constantly explained to me by family and my partner) and my Phone has 130GiB of Photos and Videos on it as we speak.
Disabled in the sense that you can no longer receive email (which for many is the primary purpose for a Google account), not that you can’t login.
Same thing happened to me and it did not default to lossy. Days later I got the "you will stop receiving email soon" warning in Gmail.