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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by rkalla on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:28AM (#24967384)
I'm like you - it's been on my todo list for about 8 years... the thing that keeps my exit velocity insanely high is:

1. Entire family on @gmail 2. All Android phones setup to send photos to a shared family@google account so no one needs to 'send me those pictures from Anon's birthday' - it's all getting sent into the same account.

I'm not sure how to seamlessly pull off #2 without trying to lift and move the entire family over to iPhone's or something like that.

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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by alisonkisk on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:07AM (#24967749)
That's a recipe for disaster when a compromising photo gets spammed to the whole family.

Also, if it's the wrong kind of compromising photo, the whole family can lose the photos.

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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by throwawaylolx on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:48AM (#24967569)
Yeah, I agree, that's way too inconvenient... I shall wait to get banned first.
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by brazzy on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:23AM (#24969022)
> I'm not sure how to seamlessly pull off #2 without trying to lift and move the entire family over to iPhone's or something like that.

Get an owncloud/nextcloud account somewhere (or host your own) and use that instead. Works pretty much the same.

I switched from Dropbox to that about 2 years ago, not problems at all. Email, I'm still hesitation though I probably shouldn't.

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