As it stands, Google Takeout is not sufficient. While attempting to export data, you can still get a "sensitive action blocked" and "we can't verify it's really

As it stands, Google Takeout is not sufficient. While attempting to export data, you can still get a "sensitive action blocked" and "we can't verify it's really you"-style errors that indefinitely prevent access to that data. I've encountered this myself when trying to export my YouTube subscriptions, and it gave me pause when I considered that this could happen to more serious data. It's not a one-time issue, either, I've been retrying export for months now without success. The responses I've seen to other people with this problem are not encouraging, amounting to "oh, you must have done something out of the ordinary, try again in a few days". See, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20054083 https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i6cn1x/google_takeout_sensitive_action_blocked/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i6cn1x/google_... https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/13380514/i-can%E2%80%99t-download-my-takeout-archive?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/13380514/i-can%E2... https://twitter.com/veerismo/status/1341605248834498561 https://twitter.com/veerismo/status/1341605248834498561 Edit: better links