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I recently took some actions to reduce the damage if Google ever ban my account. I'm now using a custom email domain (although it's just redirecting to my Gmai

I recently took some actions to reduce the damage if Google ever ban my account. I'm now using a custom email domain (although it's just redirecting to my Gmail for now), and doing regular backups of my emails (through Thurderbird) and Google Drive. With these news being more and more common, you never know when it'll happen to you.

cube00 6y ago
This is a good reminder. Many people don't realise if any one of Google's services ban you it takes down your Google account at the same time (GMail, Drive, Docs etc), it doesn't just block that single service where the alleged violation occurred.
- judge2020 6y ago
  It depends, but generally yes. YouTube DMCA strikes, for example, are known to only nuke your YT channel(s) and the rest of Google still works[0] (although this page does say your entire account is subject to termination[1]). Getting banned from the other services is much harder, of course. 0: https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/respond-to-copyright-takedowns_copyright-strikes-basics_list https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/respond-to-co... 1: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en#strikes:~:text=If%20you%20get%203%20copyright%20strikes%3A https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en#stri...
  - tenpies 6y ago
    > Getting banned from the other services is much harder, of course. Is it? All it takes is someone at Google not liking what you're saying for Google to conveniently allow a bug to "accidentally" de-activate your account[1]. Google's slogan may as well be "self-censor or be censored". [1] https://medium.com/@zacharyvorhies/open-letter-dear-attorney-representing-tulsi-gabbard-this-is-how-google-is-accidentally-ee9ebac11dbd https://medium.com/@zacharyvorhies/open-letter-dear-attorney...
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
  I'm not sure how true this is. I've had a Google Ads account killed dead, and yet my other accounts kept humming along.
SilverRed 6y ago
I did this when I was using Google Docs for school and one day I went to open my doc to continue working on it and it just presented me with an error page saying my document was blocked due to "ToS violations" I had to restart in a new document and that was the last time I ever trusted my data with google. The document got randomly unblocked the next week but the damage was already done.
GFischer 6y ago
I do that as well, but I'd still be extremely harmed if Google does ever decide to suspend service - I have an Android phone and a lot of things that are tied to that Google account. Plus, my mail is sometimes caught by spam filters, and people actually find it very odd that I have my own domain (it is a plus for technical stuff though).

cube00 6y ago

This is a good reminder. Many people don't realise if any one of Google's services ban you it takes down your Google account at the same time (GMail, Drive, Docs etc), it doesn't just block that single service where the alleged violation occurred.

judge2020 6y ago
It depends, but generally yes. YouTube DMCA strikes, for example, are known to only nuke your YT channel(s) and the rest of Google still works[0] (although this page does say your entire account is subject to termination[1]). Getting banned from the other services is much harder, of course. 0: https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/respond-to-copyright-takedowns_copyright-strikes-basics_list https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/respond-to-co... 1: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en#strikes:~:text=If%20you%20get%203%20copyright%20strikes%3A https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en#stri...
- tenpies 6y ago
  > Getting banned from the other services is much harder, of course. Is it? All it takes is someone at Google not liking what you're saying for Google to conveniently allow a bug to "accidentally" de-activate your account[1]. Google's slogan may as well be "self-censor or be censored". [1] https://medium.com/@zacharyvorhies/open-letter-dear-attorney-representing-tulsi-gabbard-this-is-how-google-is-accidentally-ee9ebac11dbd https://medium.com/@zacharyvorhies/open-letter-dear-attorney...
x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
I'm not sure how true this is. I've had a Google Ads account killed dead, and yet my other accounts kept humming along.

SilverRed 6y ago

I did this when I was using Google Docs for school and one day I went to open my doc to continue working on it and it just presented me with an error page saying my document was blocked due to "ToS violations" I had to restart in a new document and that was the last time I ever trusted my data with google. The document got randomly unblocked the next week but the damage was already done.

GFischer 6y ago

I do that as well, but I'd still be extremely harmed if Google does ever decide to suspend service - I have an Android phone and a lot of things that are tied to that Google account. Plus, my mail is sometimes caught by spam filters, and people actually find it very odd that I have my own domain (it is a plus for technical stuff though).