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> It seems like Google uses some heuristics when deciding whether to ban an account. My theory is that if you stick with your personal gmail account, you have s

> It seems like Google uses some heuristics when deciding whether to ban an account. My theory is that if you stick with your personal gmail account, you have such a long history of activity that it's unlikely to be flagged by whatever "smart" algorithm they're using. I never saw/heard of evidence of such behavior. > but you'll still lose your emails if they decide to suspend you Emails are easily backupable, you can download them locally and/or forward everything to the "backup" email. One more service to host email on your own domain is Yandex.Mail, it's free and pretty good.

FRex 9y ago
Do keep in mind that Yandex falls under Russian federal law. There was an incident already with FSB getting data about backers of Navalny's anti-corruption website from Yandex Money and if you are vocal on LGBT laws you can easily run afoul of federal children protection law (to protect children from abuse, shocking materials, LGBT, anti-family values, etc.) like the founder of Deti-404 (LGBT support group that even the author of children protection law defended, ironically enough) did. I'm personally considering hushmail (Canadian) or some other paid email in the future, for maximum piece of mind, any double digit number seems reasonable enough annually. Some out of the way liberal first world country , no superpower (and superspy) aspirations, a small paid provider (that actually needs customers and word of mouth and not throwing their weight around, Google is notorious for deleting YT channels willy nilly for 'guidelines violation' and then restoring them after a shit storm) to ensure no 'smart' 'ML' algorithm bans you. Sounds just about right.