Perhaps transforming it into a localization problem would do the trick. This way, users would be able to set their preference on byte-count in the same place as their preference on currency, decimal, and am/pm vs 24h. Applications could make use of the localization settings to calculate the amount of bytes, which would hopefully eventually centralize and generalize what counting-method the user sees.
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