Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts

Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by jschwartzi on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:45PM (#21527784)

I'm working on this right now. Google's level of control over my ability to communicate online is really scary. If I lost my gmail account because of a perceived TOS violation I would lose access to many of my accounts, and have to go through a huge inconvenience of going to physical stores, calling during business hours and submitting ID, etc. to reset passwords.

If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.

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Re:Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking acco... by xvector on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:52PM (#21529410)

> If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.

100% agreed. It was cool at the time. Now Google has so fundamentally changed and I don’t trust them with my data anymore, but it is a Herculean task to move everything off Gmail. Literally hundreds of accounts are bound to my Gmail.

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