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Pro_America
Pro_America
Ben's cred: 77
Posted 02/08/2016 at 09:12 AM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 09:12 AM PT
Who can't use extra storage these days? Pretty nice... Now I can upload tons of worthless information to be stored in Cyberspace. :)
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rjs
rjs
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Posted 02/08/2016 at 09:39 AM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 09:39 AM PT
For those of us who are paranoid about clicking links that lead us to forms asking for our passwords, you can go to Google yourself, log in, click on your picture (or icon), choose "my account" and look in the panel at the left side for "security checkup".
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jdiggity
jdiggity
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Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:17 AM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:17 AM PT
Awesome, thanks!
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Loosh
Loosh
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Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:19 AM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:19 AM PT
works, brief, and like others said, who can't use the extra cloud space?
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pkn
pkn
Ben's cred: 77
Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:28 AM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:28 AM PT
Nice! Thanks!
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nocdpc
nocdpc
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Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:40 AM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 11:40 AM PT
Good deal!
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dave_c
dave_c
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Posted 02/08/2016 at 01:32 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 01:32 PM PT
It wouldn't surprise me if google already has all my datas but doesn't want to admit to it.
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Feemer
Feemer
Ben's cred: 5
Posted 02/08/2016 at 01:42 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 01:42 PM PT
I completed this , and i didn't see anything indicating that I got the extra space.

Edit:
Success! I tried again today, and after completion, at the end of the page, on the same page was a small font message saying I got the 2GB for the 2015 security thing. I almost missed it.
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johng333
johng333
Ben's cred: 109
Posted 02/08/2016 at 02:18 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 02:18 PM PT
Nicely done, you're all set

Thanks for helping us look out for your security. We'll let you know if we ever see anything fishy, and you should feel free to run this checklist again whenever you want.

Recovery information checked

Connected devices checked

Account permissions checked

Continue to account settings


This is what I get when finished. Does not say anything about extra storage
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Feemer
Feemer
Ben's cred: 7
Posted 02/08/2016 at 02:19 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 02:19 PM PT
I completed this , and i didn't see anything indicating that I got the extra space.


If you go to https://www.google.com/settings/storage it will show you how much storage you have now. Mine shows 17 GB after I did the checkup (I was at 15 GB before)
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mikegrmi
mikegrmi
Ben's cred: 516
Posted 02/08/2016 at 05:59 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 05:59 PM PT
I did this last year and had 17GB, just did it again and it did give me another 2GB for a total of 19GB. Thanks!
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manborn
manborn
Ben's cred: 18
Posted 02/08/2016 at 06:26 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 06:26 PM PT
Posted after checklist above...

To help celebrate Safer Internet Day 2016, we added 2 GB of free Drive storage to your Google account because you completed the Security Checkup.
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fisher33305
fisher33305
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Posted 02/08/2016 at 09:34 PM PT
Posted 02/08/2016 at 09:34 PM PT
No little check boxes for me?
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dave_c
dave_c
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Posted 02/09/2016 at 06:04 AM PT
Posted 02/09/2016 at 06:04 AM PT
It wouldn't surprise me if google already has all my datas but doesn't want to admit to it.


Without a doubt!
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