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This type of behavior + AMP has pushed me off google completely. I'm determined to cut them out of my technical life entirely, I've even switched myself and everyone I know/support off their DNS. I can't support their shady practices anymore.
What is the benefit of not using their DNS?
Google Takeout https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout Problems though: if your account is already disabled, you can't use this as far as I can tell; and there's no diff option, it's a monolithic backup each time. But it might provide a strategy to limit data loss resulting from having an account disabled for whatever reason.
What exactly is the file format that one downloads?
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It means that the crypto is certainly more solid (roll-your-own is a terrible idea in cryptography) and can in principle interoperate with other OpenPGP implementations, at least once the client supports it. I like ProtonMail a lot, but full disclosure: I work there, so I'm biased.
Is ProtonMail your only active email account?
No idea what all was on his blog and other google accounts, but according to the article they were used for his work at the university. Also some credible sites like the NYT linking into the disabled blog: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/business/the-stock-market... Google may have had some good reasons or it may have just been an example of ML discriminating against a name like Salil. Either way, it's very distur…
Er, Google has millions of users who have absolutely no problems. One (or even dozens) of bad stories is a tiny percentage of the interactions that take place on their services. It's _far_ more likely to be a mistake than anything untoward, just based on the sheer numbers.
I certainly am. That rat might be rare, but the system that allowed it to go out isn't one I can trust implicitly.
Google Takeout https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout Problems though: if your account is already disabled, you can't use this as far as I can tell; and there's no diff option, it's a monolithic backup each time. But it might provide a strategy to limit data loss resulting from having an account disabled for whatever reason.
What exactly is the file format that one downloads?
These are all put into either a zip, tgz or tbz. The different archive formats have different max download sizes. Looks like the tbz has a 50G download size limit.
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This type of behavior + AMP has pushed me off google completely. I'm determined to cut them out of my technical life entirely, I've even switched myself and everyone I know/support off their DNS. I can't support their shady practices anymore.
Any suggestions for alternatives to 8.8.8.8? Is OpenDNS any good?
I'm guessing the same filtering support still exists, called Home Internet Security. [1]
One tool I have used in the past to benchmark DNS servers and choose is namebench. [2] It seems like the last releases were in 2010, but it worked for me even a few years ago (haven't checked after that).
I wonder how much I would lose if my Gmail was deleted... Everything I have is behind that address. What would be my best bet to move to if I'm too much of a bad to host my own email?
One idea: Use Google email but from a custom domain -- it doesn't back-up your email, but you can update the DNS to a new provider if you get locked out of Google's services. This means you can still recover accounts, use the same email, etc after a brief disruption, instead of totally hosed. It's not a total solution, but it does mitigate some problems, which makes Google's policies easier to swallow. (If you do sep…
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This type of behavior + AMP has pushed me off google completely. I'm determined to cut them out of my technical life entirely, I've even switched myself and everyone I know/support off their DNS. I can't support their shady practices anymore.
What is the benefit of not using their DNS?
Every question to Google is an answer for Google.