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I'm working on this right now. Google's level of control over my ability to communicate online is really scary. If I lost my gmail account because of a perceive

I'm working on this right now. Google's level of control over my ability to communicate online is really scary. If I lost my gmail account because of a perceived TOS violation I would lose access to many of my accounts, and have to go through a huge inconvenience of going to physical stores, calling during business hours and submitting ID, etc. to reset passwords. If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.

xvector 7y ago
> If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta. 100% agreed. It was cool at the time. Now Google has so fundamentally changed and I don’t trust them with my data anymore, but it is a Herculean task to move everything off Gmail. Literally hundreds of accounts are bound to my Gmail.