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Re:Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work fo... by shultays on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:47AM (#30812289) 

   Having your email on Google is not a risk
That is like the highest risk I can think of. Losing future emails that are sent to that email, losing all connected accounts, losing access to services/websites they decide to send a confirmation mail
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Re:Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work fo... by encryptluks2 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:24AM (#30812630)
That is why you should add a custom domain. You have the same lockout issue with Outlook, ProtonMail, or any email service where you don't own the domain.
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Re:Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work fo... by pyrale on Saturday March 26, 2022 @12:01PM (#30813007)
Yeah, the question is whether google makes sense as a mail provided once you've decided that you needed to pay because of that feature.

If you're a company and don't want to manually handle email provisioning? Sure, why not. If you're an individual, Google isn't great. You could have a decent feature set along with great customer support elsewhere.

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Re:Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work fo... by encryptluks2 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:04PM (#30814885)
With an email addy relay like SinpeLogin you don't have to pay Google for that feature.
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Re:Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work fo... by shultays on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:39AM (#30812802)
I misunderstood you then, "having your mail on google and syncing them" sounds like you still have a @gmail.com but taking backups. Having your own domain is indeed the safest, I do that actually
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