Unwanted Automatic Photo Uploads Silently Fill Gmail/Drive Storage
A user discovered that their device (Google or Samsung) had been automatically uploading photos to Google Drive without explicit consent, filling their Gmail storage quota and triggering an unexpected "storage full" notification. This reflects a lack of visibility and consent controls in Google's shared-storage-quota system across Gmail, Drive, and Photos.
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