I trust Google Photos with my memories, not my storage

Google Photos is one of those services I rely on without thinking.

It stores more than a terabyte of pictures and videos, and more importantly, resurfaces old memories at the right moments. For managing such a large photo library, it’s hard to beat.

However, I can’t trust Google Photos with storage management. It offers surprisingly little control over how I can control the ever-growing space requirements of my library. And that’s a problem.