Dupe from a month ago, with multiple 300+ comment threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
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Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#82They deleted my youtube vids. Now there is guy in California that claims he invented what was shown as an invention in one of my videos. Got $10 million in startup capital for it. Video was 2009.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#83This missing ")" in the title and in the content gives me goosebumps.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#84What's another good email provider? I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one day I'll lose access and fall into the pit of "trying to get Google to help a single human regain access" that sounds horrible.
Like everyone else is saying: fastmail.com. If you pay for 3 years up front it is like $3 a month.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#85Yahoo Mail does the same with only a 1 year threshold and regardless of how much data you use. Don't log in for 12 months = lose everything. Sadly found this out the hard way - most of my childhood email accounts were wiped :'( Now they're also disabling email forwarding for free users which I've been relying on for a decade to catch occasionally relevant emails. Might really be forced to shell out the $3.49 a month…
If you are using gmail, you probably could use "Check email from other accounts:" under "Settings / Accounts and Import". It fetches new mails periodically using POP3 or IMAP.
If you host your own mail server, you could use https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html instead.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#86They stop your gmail from receiving inbound emails if you don't pay to upgrade for storage [15gb]. Within 24 hours!
I just reached that, and the first alert I see on my email [1] feels quite threatening. It's like I came home, and there's an unexpected eviction on the door.
IMO, this is way worse that account inactivity. Who remembers that ever-increasing ticker on the gmail homepage that advertised "Your storage with us is always growing", and it was like 10gb + the counter was increasing live.
Ridiculous.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#87Never get in captivity without Internet access for more than 2 years ;)
such as prison
I had more in mind things like "Cast Away" or poor souls who were held in captivity in a remote foreign country by the government there or local pirates or terrorists. When you return to "normal" life you even loose your email, photos and everything just because you could not log in for 2 years :(
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#88The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that. Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit is 365 days of inactivity.
Same - many years of emails just gone. That experience is what made me start archiving all my email locally (simply Thunderbird with IMAP + routine Time Machine backups).
It's why I use POP wherever possible.
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#89Wow, so everyone who's in jail or going to jail will lose their accounts
Re: An update to storage policies across your Google Account
#90Set a reminder every 3 or 6 months to use Google Takeout. Download a full copy of your data to a hard drive in your local possession. If you’re really paranoid, download a 2nd copy and put it on a hard drive that you then leave unplugged from all computers and the internet until the next time. Simple solution for anyone with broadband, and then if you ever lost your cloud data due to subscription lapsing or inactivit…
Is there an automated version of this?