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I use fastmail for emails, dropbox for storage, icloud for calendar and notes. I also use a security key with my fastmail and dropbox accounts. A physical one. So I don’t really forget my password to begin with.
Tldr: the author underestimated the importance of tech accounts, diversification and how shitty google support service is.
> Imagine you have spent much of your digital life for the last 12 years on Google. You rely on their mail and calendar, Google Drive for storage and Google Photos for your photo archive. Like I've said in the past here [1], if something is so important to you, you need to treat it as such. Continuing to use a service that offers no guarantees, availability or even continuing access to your account is a sign of ignor…
Can you, or someone else, point to an alternative to gmail that won't decide to lock me out of my account and still offers generous data storage?
Any provider has the right to terminate your account for variety of reasons even if you're a paid customer.
It's pretty slack to be taking people's money and providing zero customer service.
Yeah well I got locked out of my hotmail account 5 years ago and I never got back in. There was a bug in an iOS release that caused the Mail app to make repeated, unnecessary requests to authenticate hotmail/outlook so Microsoft determined that there was suspicious activity and locked me out. They have an account recovery process for situations like this and I tried, and tried, and tried, and failed to regain access.…
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Tell her to be sure there is a distinguishable "unsubscribe" link in letters.
You'd be surprised for how many technology-inept users that wouldn't make a difference. They'll still mark the email as spam. It's easier for many people to understand and easier to click.
Yeah well I got locked out of my hotmail account 5 years ago and I never got back in. There was a bug in an iOS release that caused the Mail app to make repeated, unnecessary requests to authenticate hotmail/outlook so Microsoft determined that there was suspicious activity and locked me out. They have an account recovery process for situations like this and I tried, and tried, and tried, and failed to regain access.…
Trusting "your life" to a third party service is very dangerous. Because if your life depends on that service, your life can't continue with out it, so I ask, why do this to yourself? The convenience is a serious trade off.
What's the alternative though? It's not like Microsoft and Yahoo's email/calendar services are much better. Use a paper calendar and run your own private email server and hope you never have to run for president?
Why not? It works for a lot of people. I don't understand why some people are so eager to hand their personal data out to 3rd parties. This is a very do-able solution.
Recently I had a similar experience, thankfully with my work account. Even then, with having GSuite support, it took around 2 weeks to resolve the issue. If you lose access to your personal GMail account, well....you're fucked :/ Since then I have slowly started migrating my personal email and all logins to another mail provider, where you can actually contact support, as to not rely on Google.
I’ve actually considered running my own mail server again now DKIM/DMARC is around.
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You'd be surprised for how many technology-inept users that wouldn't make a difference. They'll still mark the email as spam. It's easier for many people to understand and easier to click.
It sometimes can be better to mark it as spam. There was a thing a while back where the unsubscribe link was just verifying that you still check that email account, and you click on links, so they'd send you more spam.