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Re:I got locked out of my Google account for a month by WhyNotHugo on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:36AM (#15993206)
This happens all over the place -- for some reason, the majority of the people won't learn. They'll tell you horror stories about how they lost a lot of work (or even money!) because a provider never gave them support, yet, go back to that same provider.

A group of acquaintances had a Facebook group where they shared research and documents. It got deleted and they lost everything. Thrice. I suggested they used something else for document storage each time, but was just ignored or shooed off.

The root cause of the problem is kinda beyond me -- but it's clear that people are unwilling to learn from experience when it comes to these things, and that these free services will continue to behave as they do because there's no downside to doing so.

Re:I got locked out of my Google account for a month by proactivesvcs on Saturday December 23, 2017 @08:08AM (#15994024)
My sister had her broadband slammed (taken over by an ISP without any request or permission whatsoever) which left her with an unreliable and slower service. She stayed with them.

For about three years the router they sent her would kick off the fifth-oldest DHCP lease and the ISP kept refusing to replace it.

It's a truly fascinating psychological effect.

Re:I got locked out of my Google account for a month by nerflad on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:00PM (#15995333)
It's "who moved my cheese". People will violently resist changing their routines.