You are getting compensated 100%. There may be bugs in the trash system. There will always be ways to improve it. But what determines what is customer data that you get paid for has always been determined by the satellites: never by what’s on a nodes disk. The millisecond a customer deletes a file Storj stops getting paid for it, and SNOs as well. It instantly becomes useless data: and it’s part of the housekeeping routines (bloom filters, garbage collection) to eventually get rid of it. Which, yes, could take over a week
And the entire trash system, and the space it takes, has always been just part of running a node. You don’t get paid $1.5/TB/m for the node installer footprint. You don’t get paid $1.5/TB/m for whatever the databases files use. You don’t get $1.5/TB/m for Docker logs. And you don’t get paid for trash. All that is just part of running the software.
I agree trash still need to be improved. I’ve seen dramatic improvements with 1.104.5, but it doesn’t seem to be running like clockwork yet. And I did go looking for some old trash files that were hanging around (and found some). But I certainly appreciate the improvements so far!