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Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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This is one of the reasons why I've finally began migrating to a custom domain + proton mail. Can't imagine the time it would take me to get back all the accounts registered to my email, not to mention those to which access would be lost forever.

I've been wanting to migrate off Gmail since Snowden, but never looked closer. I need to get on that.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

#72

This is one of the reasons why I've finally began migrating to a custom domain + proton mail. Can't imagine the time it would take me to get back all the accounts registered to my email, not to mention those to which access would be lost forever.

Unfortunately Protonmail is not good for long term mail storage. Their web mail app has hardly improved in years, and it is abysmal in terms of search and handling thousands of emails. If you depend on PM, you may find some years later that your emails are trapped and incredibly difficult to access except painfully individually, with much manual effort.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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I have been thinking about this for a while. Considering I prefer to keep the important data/emails on Gmail or Google drive for security and I really consider it important. Would it help if Google had a paid tier? Say, if you can get into an annual plan, similar to what's there for hardware devices like Apple Care+. Just that, in this there is someone to help you through issues. We used to pay 10% of our AWS bill fo…

If Google won't do it, why hasn't a 3rd party stepped up to provide the service? I'd gladly pay a trustworthy company a few dollars a month to automatically backup my gmail, google photos, and google docs. I don't want to do it locally, since that puts me on the hook for assuring physical safety and backups of my backups. I suppose I could roll my own solution, but frankly I get tired of maintaining my one-off projec…

Because it costs more than a few dollars a month. The net cost to users for Google is zero (or a token amount) because Google makes their money from data mining and selling your meta data.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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Maybe they detected highly illegal content and won't disclose it for those reasons (could be an ongoing investigation).

Would this not be paired with some kind of law enforcement agency action?

It could be, and it is possible they are not allowed to inform you of that.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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Right now I have everything tied up to my Google account (primary email, drive, photos). Has anyone moved away and if so, to what?

Use your own domain.

Use fastmail for email: it's best of breed outside of gmail. (This isn't damning with faint praise; it's quite good. Just not as good as gmail).

Use Arq for backup from your devices into google cloud storage or aws s3.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

#77

I have been thinking about this for a while. Considering I prefer to keep the important data/emails on Gmail or Google drive for security and I really consider it important. Would it help if Google had a paid tier? Say, if you can get into an annual plan, similar to what's there for hardware devices like Apple Care+. Just that, in this there is someone to help you through issues. We used to pay 10% of our AWS bill fo…

There was a story a while back where someone had Google One, had their account disabled, and couldn't use Google One's support because they needed a Google Account (that was disabled).

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

#78

I have been thinking about this for a while. Considering I prefer to keep the important data/emails on Gmail or Google drive for security and I really consider it important. Would it help if Google had a paid tier? Say, if you can get into an annual plan, similar to what's there for hardware devices like Apple Care+. Just that, in this there is someone to help you through issues. We used to pay 10% of our AWS bill fo…

I keep my stuff on one drive, I find it better than gdrive. I think it's harder to google than MS to delete my stuff out nothing.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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This is a good reminder to always backup your photos/docs elsewhere - if you have one Synology has a good Google integration that will do this automatically (I then send it up to Glacier for off-site). And also - eschew the convenience of OAUTH - just create an account at every site - it's annoying but at least you avoid you're entire life being locked out.

Synology also allows you to run your own contacts, calendar service and has a Google Photos equivalent called Moments (which includes the mobile app to autobackup photos). The difference? You own the data on your own drive.

Synology also allows you to run your own mail server, with a web app similar to Gmail, if you want to go down that rabbit hole (MailPlus/MailPlus Server).
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