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Yeah, when a normal bank closes your account, you can open one at another bank. Google closes your bank account, you potentially lose your email, passwords, co

• d1zzy 6y ago
  To take this comparison further: you still need to transfer your assets out of the first bank, otherwise you lose all of that. Similarly you would need to get your digital assets out of Google, using Takeout. But not sure if Takeout is a service you can access when Google Account is locked, if not, it should be.
  • visarga 6y ago
    You need more than takeout. There should be a grace period when you're allowed to switch your accounts that rely on the Gmail address before they kill it. Maybe at first they could block only the sending of emails so you could still receive confirmation emails. By the way, why is closing an account a practice instead of closing just the sending of emails?