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Yeah. Reddit is especially really intrusive and annoying. I feel like they just don't want people to use their site anymore. Whenever I open new Reddit, my memory and CPU usage goes up so badly.
old.reddit.com.
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For that you have this: https://takeout.google.com/ You can export all your email in a single .mbox file. This might not work if your account is suspended, but if you set up email forwarding to an alternative address (e.g. to protonmail) that might still stay active so you can transition your addresses.
I wonder if Google lets you Takeout if they’ve locked your account…
Has anyone else noticed random popups on 3rd party websites asking for google sign in? I even used firefox when it happened: https://imgur.com/a/JC52lBV (lequipe.fr) https://imgur.com/a/VSM3Uk9 (reddit.com) https://imgur.com/a/KpVCYBL (medium.com)
I suspect some bizdev people at Google just had a "great idea".
But if the account I'd use to sign in is my Gmail account, and they had locked that account, wouldn't I be locked out anyway?
Please explain it to me if I'm wrong (cause that happens often).
To add to this: Never use a @gmail.com address, buy your own domain and pay the $6/mo to get a Google GSuite with your name@fullname.com address instead. If Google locks your account, you can now move your email hosting to another provider and won't lose access to your entire digital world. Be aware that doing this now means your DNS provider and domain registrar become vectors for hackers to take over your email acc…
Yeah but they’ve still got your emails.
I like GMail for their spam filtering power, and I honestly believe spam to be email's biggest weakness, and the reason people don't host their own. It certainly scares me, the thought of being flooded with thousands of spam emails daily, or the chance that my own emails would be falsely marked as spam since I'm not part of the major providers or because I did not configure it correctly. Don't know how this can be solved though, email itself is too permissive, and too "tweakable".
/sarcasm
> "if Google (or third-party of your choice) locks your account for some reason, you will be locked out of all the services where you signed into using Google." But if the account I'd use to sign in is my Gmail account, and they had locked that account, wouldn't I be locked out anyway? Please explain it to me if I'm wrong (cause that happens often).
To add to this: Never use a @gmail.com address, buy your own domain and pay the $6/mo to get a Google GSuite with your name@fullname.com address instead. If Google locks your account, you can now move your email hosting to another provider and won't lose access to your entire digital world. Be aware that doing this now means your DNS provider and domain registrar become vectors for hackers to take over your email acc…
$6/month doesn't sound like much... Till you realise you'll probably have this setup for 20 years, and suddenly it's $1200. That's a lot to protect against a thing that will probably not happen (account being banned)
$1,200 is a lot of money, but... anyone aged 23+ is older than Google. 17+ is older than GMail.
It is an illusion to say we know what will or will not happen to Google over the next 20 years. We don't know how entrenched the tech giants are over decades because we've never had anything like them before.
This is a problem that is obviously not going to happen in the next 12 months. But if a person don't control their email address, they shouldn't be using it for anything that it would really hurt to lose.
To add to this: Never use a @gmail.com address, buy your own domain and pay the $6/mo to get a Google GSuite with your name@fullname.com address instead. If Google locks your account, you can now move your email hosting to another provider and won't lose access to your entire digital world. Be aware that doing this now means your DNS provider and domain registrar become vectors for hackers to take over your email acc…
$6/month doesn't sound like much... Till you realise you'll probably have this setup for 20 years, and suddenly it's $1200. That's a lot to protect against a thing that will probably not happen (account being banned)