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But they probably wouldn't. That's the whole advantage of building up a business reputation over years (part of which is blog posts like these; another part of
by veidr 9y ago
But they probably wouldn't.
That's the whole advantage of building up a business reputation over years (part of which is blog posts like these; another part of which is just not doing shit like that.)
As a potential customer, I knew that Fastmail didn't have a reputation for abusing customers or capricious/erroneous/fucked-up account termination. That's why I chose their service, and today I'm a mostly-satisfied customer.
I didn't and wouldn't choose Google for this kind of service because I don't have that level of trust in them (because, as we all know here, they not only can but also do engage in fucked-up account terminations all the time).
Even if the Fastmail terms of service said "we will not ever terminate your account unless you are convicted of felony child abuse" they could always terminate your account by going out of business.
So I get your concern, but that's really always a concern. You have to judge that risk, and the primary way to do that is by checking out a company's reputation.
- isatty 9y agoYes but for some people the word "probably" is not going to work. They need to run their own stack with associated backups.
- enitihas 9y agoI understand your point, but prior to the recent update their termination criteria were really broad, basically on whatsoever reason your account could be terminated. Now they have modified their ToS and the termination criteria now seem reasonable.