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I've been yelling about this for years. In every single case, if you are not paying for a service, be aware you'll eventually get screwed. In every single cas

I've been yelling about this for years. In every single case, if you are not paying for a service, be aware you'll eventually get screwed. In every single case, if you put too many eggs in one basket -- one computer, one hard drive, one vendor -- you'll eventually get screwed. Google has made it very very very easy to get deeply enmeshed with their ecosystem of "free" offerings, and those offerings can become very very important to people. That's a TRAP.

bleepblorp 6y ago
Again, there's no evidence that paying for service results in better customer service. There are many, many stories of Google arbitrarily killing paid and/or B2B accounts, including Gsuite, Adsense, Play Store consumer (paid apps), Play Store publisher accounts, and so on. If you use Google accounts at all, you're putting yourself at undue risk of getting screwed and paying for the privilege.