Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
by coverband on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:37PM
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>> "I certainly felt confident that I would be a gmail user for life. I certainly didn't consider the possibility that they'd one day just deny my access to the whole thing because I spoke ill of them in a HN comment. ;)"
Sorry I'm being a bit thick, but did this happen, or does the emoticon at the end mean it's hypothetical?
Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
by daveloyall on Friday July 15, 2016 @05:23PM
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Did not happen. Hopefully it's even less than hypothetical.
But what that doesn't show is that they then changed it back, and forth... for a while. It was just a UX issue that only affected computer literate people. THE BEST KIND. :(
I remember when some combination of Gmail features* enabled me to upload my old mbox with years of personal email into my GAFYD account... emails from before Gmail publicly existed. And now I could SEARCH them! The future was bright.
I certainly felt confident that I would be a gmail user for life. I certainly didn't consider the possibility that they'd one day just deny my access to the whole thing because I spoke ill of them in a HN comment. ;)
* access external pop3 account and auto-rewrite message headers so messages would be associated with my gmail address even though they were originally delivered to a different domain... Brilliant.