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Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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Post by bleepblorp »

laurent92 wrote: post #166
martinko wrote: post #15

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.

Good luck when you notice your registar is less reliable than Google’s one-per-million account deletion.

You have actual recourse--through TLD registry procedures or the courts--should your registrar Googleify your domain.

You have no effective recourse should Google Googleify your Gmail account.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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Post by smallnamespace »

Animats wrote: post #201

Sue in small claims court. Costs about $50 to file, plus $100 or so for a process server. Check Google's terms of service.[1] They're not too bad. There's no forced arbitration. You can go to Small Claims Court in Santa Clara County, CA. Google lists the reasons they can terminate an account. It's not a "sole discretion" thing; they have specific reasons listed. So Google will have to show in court that you violated…

Being in the same small claims venue as the company is actually a nice side benefit to living in the Bay Area, otherwise you potentially be looking at thousands to hire a lawyer in normal court.

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Post by techsupporter »

blunte wrote: post #88
csdreamer7 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered Zoho? They have a free tier and gdocs competitor.

I left Gsuite for Zoho (mail) a couple of years ago after reading so many of these Google account closure scares. I cannot speak to the quality of the Zoho office apps, but their email seems reliable and allows me to have over a dozen domains tied to one account at a tiny cost per month. Fastmail, as I recall, couldn't or wouldn't allow many domains tied to one account (otherwise I would have chosen them).

I don't know if your account was different, but I have 15 domains on my Fastmail account and almost a hundred specific aliases (in addition to the catch-all) and they've not complained one bit.

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Post by foxylion »

swiley wrote: post #196
theandrewbailey wrote: post #79

If anyone has a Google account, you need to Takeout regularly. https://takeout.google.com

You have a tiny window to download a huge archive and you can't restart the download. In theory it's great in practice you don't have access to it.

You can now link the takeout to another cloud provider (e.g. Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive). And configure the takeout to take place every two month (for up to 6 times).

So you just need to configure the takeout once a year and you'll automatically receive a backup once every two month.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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Post by ochoseis »

sangnoir wrote: post #178
breakingcups wrote: post #83

It's incredibly Kafka-eqsue that you get banned for a supposed violation that you're supposed to appeal, but you don't know what you're being accused of doing. This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it's an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible. The remaining 1 time it's because someone knows how to abuse reporting systems to get someone…

I'll play the devils advocate: moderating any platform is a challenging endeavor, mostly because of malicious users. Having all the rules broken down in detail allows bad actors to either get close to the line but not cross it, or abuse the system while technically not breaking any rules. As such, having very broad rules (read TOS) helps. Additionally, not having to explain exactly what was violated means that people…

What seems novel here is that the author _actually works_ at Google and still can’t help despite being an insider. Although, not sure if that says more about Google or more about the banned account.

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Post by Daniel_sk »

mdavidn wrote: post #192
daotoad wrote: post #165

So, the thing that google has that I value most is broad single sign-on support. Is there a service (other than Facebook) that has this capability? Is there a technology that we should be driving adoption of that would allow me to host my own SSO?

Use a password manager like 1Password instead. Don't tie your accounts together.

Yes. I don't see ANY advantage of SSO if you are using a password manager like 1Password which autofill strong passwords and even 2FA if you want. Why would I want to use Google Sign In in this case? It's a single point of failure and you are making it easy to link all your services to a single identity.

Re: Google disabled my husband's account

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Post by mszcz »

arthurcolle wrote: post #84
Eyas wrote: post #2

This story is just absolutely ridiculous: The poster _works at Google_ and even tried to escalate internally for days, to no avail.

I would lose my mind if this happened to me. Can't imagine how frustrating this would end up being.

That's why you should have email on your own domain. If they lock you out you can quickly-ish migrate to a different provider without losing your email address. Not a solution but definitely softens the blow.

Google allows this for GSuite at $5/mo I think.

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Post by jasonv »

kelnos wrote: post #154
theandrewbailey wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I looked into this a bit a year or two ago, and wasn't happy with the alternatives. The main issue for me is that I never delete anything , and so I have nearly 500GB of email, dating back over 20 years (sadly I've lost earlier email due to the cost of even local storage back in those days). I don't want to deal with the data in any way, sorting through it, splitting it up, etc. I just want to dump it all into an ema…

I recently culled a few of my larger gmail accounts.

This is what it took:

* Connect to Outlook and sync locally

* Sort All Mail by sender

* Delete All Mail per senders that aren't important

It took me a day, and I'm glad I did it. Not that painful. Outlook was a champ through the whole process.

Now I can move somewhere else, which I will.

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