Free Alibaba Cloud Drive, to paid, I have endured, and it's 178 yuan a year (8T capacity), I renewed, and it's automatic renewal. You can watch movies and TV shows on TV, I endured that too. But now they are starting to play tricks again.
Alibaba Cloud Drive has launched a third-party application rights package, which is independent of the Alibaba Cloud Drive super member and needs to be purchased separately. If not purchased, using Alibaba Cloud Drive to log in to a third-party application will face speed limits.
For example, Lanzhan.com uses the video player VidHub to watch downloaded movies and TV shows from Alibaba Cloud Drive on TV. Now, without subscribing to the rights package, due to speed limits, the video is extremely laggy and almost unwatchable.
So currently, Lanzhan.com has re-downloaded the resources to a local NAS and then watched them by mounting the resources in the NAS hard drive through the VidHub SMB protocol, at least avoiding the playback speed limit issue.
However, Alibaba Cloud Drive has also adjusted the prices of third-party rights packages. Initially, it was 10 yuan per month or 110 yuan per year, but after this price adjustment, it has become 17 yuan per month or 178 yuan per year, which is a significant price increase.
For users, if they do not purchase this rights package, they will almost be unable to use third-party video player applications. Of course, it also affects non-video player applications. For example, file download applications will also be restricted in download speed, so the user experience will be greatly reduced.
I haven't seen any price increase announcements from Alibaba Cloud Drive yet. I don't know why the price adjustment is so significant in a short period. Could it be that there are too many purchasing users, so Alibaba Cloud Drive is raising prices? If there are few purchasing users, then they definitely won't raise prices.
We can't say it all at once, this is heading towards Baidu Cloud Drive.
Current cloud drives:
Baidu: Speed limits on cloud drive
Alibaba Cloud Drive: Constantly changing rules
Lanzou: Files below 100M
123 Pan: For now, let's stick with it
Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom cloud drives
I have only used other cloud drives, but haven't spent any money.