Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
by bryan_w on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:36PM
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Why wouldn't you backup your data periodically? You would if you self hosted, it's the same for online services
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
by cube00 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:29AM
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You can backup your data but the big fear that caused me to move off was GMail. When Google drops the ban hammer on any of its services (eg. YouTube for using too many emojis) it does it at the Google account level which kills everything. Even worse I've also seen reports Google continues to accept new email and the sender has no knowledge that you're locked out and unable to respond.
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
by anonymousab on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:32AM
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I'd wager that the vast majority of people don't, or certainly don't for emails.
Someone tries to access your account from a random place, or maybe an old camera video you uploaded to youtube gets flagged erroneously by some contentid or appropriate content automation, and an automated system locks your account permanently, with you forever losing access to your emails and files. And not being allowed to use google services ever again without breaking ToS.