I know I have paid plenty to the storage device manufacturers over the decades.
I’m starting to. Just bought two years of Flikr. And now this iCloud thing which I still have to figure out if I have to pay soon or eventually. I was always afraid storage was a scam. Lol. Clearly it is not and will be widely used by everyone in a few years if not sooner. I’m waiting for the Facebook crackdown. Lol.