Consumer Reports: “Come May 10, the company had planned to charge me $30 to re-up my Google One subscription for the year, which grants me 200GB of cloud storage space.  Would this fee, which breaks down to $2.50 per month, break my budget? No, especially since I’ve been paying since 2018, when I signed up for Google One for the first time. But earlier this year, I decided to push back against subscription overload: $10 per month for a music service I barely use, $36 per month for 2 pounds of “premium” coffee delivered to my door, $20 per year for a magazine that frequently goes straight to the trash. With inflation so high, culling unnecessary subscriptions is a great way to save money. And so, I was determined not to pay a penny more for the items archived in my Google account. As you may know, the company gives all users 15GB of free storage space to house those many keepsakes stowed in Google Photos, Google Docs, and, crucially in my case, Gmail. To be fair, 15GB is a huge amount of free space (three times what Apple offers, if you’re keeping score), so how could I possibly need more? Well, I created my Gmail account in 2008 and . . . basically, never deleted anything. I mean that: I’m pretty sure I deleted fewer than 10 emails over the life of my account. Instead, I’d invariably “mark as read” and move on with my day. Big mistake. As a result, my inbox was bursting at the seams with junk: Old Navy newsletters from a decade ago, Best Buy offers that expired while President Obama was still in office, happy birthday emails from websites that no longer exist. You name it, I had it. Heck, I had so much email that Gmail couldn’t be bothered to even count anymore: “1-50 of many” was what it said in the top right corner of my inbox as opposed to “1-50 of 50,000” or whatever. All told, I had a bit more than 20GB of email in my inbox, well past the 15GB limit for free account storage. If I wanted to avoid paying Google another $30 this year to maintain more than a decade’s worth of junk, I had to act fast. So about a week ago, I rolled up my sleeves and got to work…”