Anecdote: I would have paid the Google tax. I actually tried to just out of convenience. But one small bit of nonsense stopped me.

Google required me to send them my passport and photo ID for the priveldge of paying them for additional storage. I gave up on them at that point.

... breaking the camels back ...

I'm currently migrating away from my last Google piece: Gmail.

Who remembers when Google were exciting? The good old days ...