Given the low likelihood of this happening (for Google, Fastmail, Outlook, etc.) it's really not worth thinking that much about this. My approach is to have a custom domain and forwarding to another provider. Gmail -> Outlook forwarding iCloud Photos -> OneDrive etc
You seem to be only thinking about Gmail. What about the other Google services that would be lost? Anyone who makes their living making YouTube videos will be devastated by the loss of their YouTube account. It can also be a huge problem for those who log into other websites using their Google account.
If anyone can help woththis,please reach out : My father owns a business that has been family owned and operated by my grandpa and my father for nearly 50 years. The name of the business contaibs our last name. The google street view of the business is my fathers home. Recently my fathers domain registration lapsed and someone bought the domain. We changed the website to a different address and went to change the goo…
Can you share the domain?
Well since it involves my last name and former home address unfortunately I cannot without doxxing the shit out of myself
I have a question. All my domains are registered in google domains, if my account gets locked... will those domains also be locked? Also, which domain register would you recommend besides google domains? BTW: google domains is the only service I currenly use with a google account.
I don't know whether your domains would be locked but it's possible so I wouldn't take the chance. Any registrar where you can call or email someone and get a response would be better than Google. A lot of people recommend NameCheap. I don't recommend GoDaddy at all as their UI is full of traps and pitfalls to trick you into buying additional services.
I have decided to multiplu Cloud services by 2. So I also use Microsoft 365, onedrive and Outlook. It feels more solid than Google nowadays anyways.
Just last week someone called my shop saying they couldn't get into their Outlook.com account. They had a backup email and had a code sent to it but Outlook.com said the code was bad. I told them to look into FastMail, preferably with their own domain name. It's not free but it's inexpensive and you can contact someone if there is a problem, and worst case, you can re-point your domain. Mailbox.org is another option.
The amount of nonsense on my LG C1 is nonsense given what I paid for it. Seriously considering getting an Apple TV or Nvidia Shield to run all my stuff on. Their UI is so bloated with crap.
Unfortunately, the Nvidia Shield hasn't been the community darling for some time. Ever since there was an OS update that started putting ads on the homescreen.
Unfortunately, the Nvidia Shield hasn't been the community darling for some time. Ever since there was an OS update that started putting ads on the homescreen.
I stopped using the Shield when I realized that my LG C9 runs the streaming applications much better than the Shield. The Shield has always been slow for me and Hulu on it never worked right. Every time it went to the next episode of a TV show, the screen would be black while the audio played. I don't think it was consistent how long it stayed like that for but it could be up to a few minutes. I'll just let LG collec…
I just hate that I can only download a few apps unless I make an LG account. I don't want an account to log into my tv so I can access my accounts I log in to. That's some Xzibit nonsense.
Funny enough advertising was relatively small part of the economy until the last several decades. Now it is an "industry" in the multi-trillion dollar range. Even funnier, if Google search worked effectively for product discovery the vast majority of advertising would not be necessary.
Good point. Maybe the death of advertising comes when some entity knows us so perfectly well it automagically provides the exact thing we want/need exactly when we want/need it.
Google used to for me at least from around 2010-2015 +/- a few years. It was incredible. Now it is usually very hard to find anything I want via search. I suppose a certain amount of defect in search results is optimal for the ad business.
You do want that. But with proper (actual) procedures in place. The opposite of that is, you do not have a way of recourse, ever. Even states have some.
It is a fantasy that you can have humans adhere to procedures. That's the whole underlying problem of social engineering. Just take the human out of the loop.
See, that's the fundamental hubris/weakness of the "Silicon Valley current ethos" (well, most tech ethos today) taken to the extreme: taking the human out of the loop. Then who/what does it actually serve?
(or maybe, they perfectly know it, but don't saying out too loud)
Google has the same incentive to consider users. If your eyeballs go away they have no recourse for tomorrow. This is no doubt why they give their services away. If they thought they could achieve similar market share while also charging you they certainly would. (And they do whenever they see the chance.)
Google certainly could charge a very small fee for existing gmail, youtube, etc, accounts and make a bunch of money. In fact there is a pretty strong argument that they are leaving money on the table by not doing so. Imagine you like your gmail and you have had it for the past decade. If Google charges only $1 per year across say a billion users that is a billion dollars. Even if they lose some users at the margin it…
While I agree with your premise, once you charge someone for something, even if it is $1/year, then they start expecting something for that money above and beyond what you provided earlier. In other words, now you've got to budget for real customer support and that will undoubtedly cost you more than the $1/year you're receiving as payment from that customer.