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Reading this I wonder if there is a process to take control of my domain associated with my gdrive account so that I have control of it from the standpoint of access, registration. What happens if google locks you out if your domain?
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What constitutes a real review though? There's a small restaurant I used to go to. The last two times I left after 5-10 minutes of all waiters doing the "if i don't look over there i don't have to work" trick. Each time I went on to Google to write a review. Is this not a legitimate review?
It might be true but if there is no evidence it ever happened it never happened. What value would you get from reading such a review?
I guess in a scenario similar to mine, you'd look for patterns. The same guy saying the same specific thing makes me think of a grudge too. However if it is multiple sources complaining about similar things, then it's a pattern. You'd also get to decide whether what matters to them matters to you. I think a sister comment was saying something similar. For example, it is routine where I live for people to complain about pizza joints that "do not even send ketchup" with delivery orders. This I am not too hung up on. :)
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It is extremely not amazing, it continually fails to export my 12tb account. Which is a problem, because in 30 days or so they are going to start enforcing the 5tb limit on workspace accounts, which will prevent me from getting even emails.
Can you break it up into different products on each export?
I recently decided to trust Apple with my emails after witnessing a friend lose access to his free account due to some mistakes on his part. After he reached out to Apple's customer service, I was genuinely impressed by the helpful and knowledgeable support team. They escalated the issue efficiently through multiple levels, involving several phone calls over a short span of one or two days. What stood out the most wa…
I remember a boss telling me about his personal experience at Nordstroms, with a lady irate about a set of defective tires she bought. She didn't have a receipt, but the sales clerk said that he was fine with taking them as a return if she could say how much she spent on them. It's worth noting for people who are unfamiliar with the store - while they do sell some home goods in addition to clothing and beauty/jewelry…
I’m pretty sure it’s better than Google’s automated no-support, but it’s certainly nothing to praise.
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I remember a boss telling me about his personal experience at Nordstroms, with a lady irate about a set of defective tires she bought. She didn't have a receipt, but the sales clerk said that he was fine with taking them as a return if she could say how much she spent on them. It's worth noting for people who are unfamiliar with the store - while they do sell some home goods in addition to clothing and beauty/jewelry…
>presumably because you could otherwise ask for a battery replacement for a devices with a damaged screen and back panel, and pay an order of magnitude less than a repair on the damaged display and back. So there's no way to get a battery replaced on a device with a damaged display?
Replacing the battery on most iPhones involves removing the display. If the display is already damaged, it's likely that removing it will damage it further, possibly to the extent of making it stop working entirely. Apple is, understandably, hesitant to either 1) potentially return a device to a customer in worse shape than they got it, or 2) eat the cost of replacing the display when servicing batteries.
Why not download the mail and keep it locally, instead of accessing it only on the whims of Google security EPMs? A standard IMAP client will do this for you easily.
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You don't have to switch to Apple though. It's a bit like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Apple has an even stronger hold on your digital life if you decide to fully invest into its ecosystem. It's much better to stay on Android, but de-google it, and avoiding the use of your Google account
Sure, but if Apple decides to lock your account (a much more rare phenomenon if sampling Hacker News comments) you can have someone on the phone with you in minutes, or even walk to a store where they will help you.
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Is there a way to do this without flipping the unread flag to read? I tried doing this years ago with Yahoo email and the it started marking the unread emails as read.
Using IMAP? Did you read the emails on the other device? I thought IMAP synced the read state between devices.
Or maybe that was a POP sync. I don't even remember anymore.
It's funny, I have an old Gmail account that I haven't logged in in years. That account had my current account listed as a recovery email. One day I received an email to my current account from Google saying that it had blocked a suspicious attempt to log in to that old account. So I tried to log in to that old account to change the password but Google wouldn't let me, just saying something like somethings seemed wro…
Seemingly without notifying us, google has turned off recovering accounts using the recovery email. Since a few years back they will only ever except phone numbers for this. It's unbelievably stupid.
With so many people centralizing on gmail over the years, this really feels like another blow to the usefulness of email overall. It has me thinking more critically around recovery workflows I've built or assumptions that people will have records of previously sent messages.
Google takeout is already amazing (especially compared to other companies that offer similar services) but I wish I could incrementally download whatever changed since my last backup. The amount of my data they have is huge, and I'm basically only taking a snapshot once every 6 months at this point. I have to download ~15 50gb files :( (It's almost all from YouTube, Gmail, and Google Photos)