Comment by mschuster91
2 months ago
the problem is, you cannot be sure what Google does if they catch you violating their ToS. They have killed off entire google accounts for YT copyright strikes with no recourse.
2 months ago
the problem is, you cannot be sure what Google does if they catch you violating their ToS. They have killed off entire google accounts for YT copyright strikes with no recourse.
That's why I'm not using Google accounts for anything important, I left gmail in 2014 and I really advise everybody to do the same.
You never know when the hammer can drop.
This. I simply don't understand why some people rely on Google given the risk level, impact and their no-recourse-except-maybe-public-shaming policy.
Google doesn't capriciously deprecate things in a short amount of time. When they sunset features, there's plenty of warning. They'll tell you that there's a hammer, that it's going to drop on you in 6 months, which is plenty of time for you to get out from under it. Which, I mean, I'd rather there not be a hammer, but it's not like they're gonna announce on a Friday that they're shutting down Google Keep on Monday and I need to wreck my whole weekend in order to save all my notes.
The hammer isn't shutting down a service, it refers to your Google account getting banned for a violation or whatever reason they feel like.
I'm not afraid of them deprecating Gmail, I'm afraid thar I wake up one day and the account is banned without recourse.
Yeah, same. I still have a gmail account that just forwards emails, and I update the email on services as they come on. Being on your own domain for email is just better.Though, I use a service provider to handle the mail server itself