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You can have many copies of your password manager database in many places, but you have only one Google. If you lose one thing, what would you rather lose? If y
by theandrewbailey 5y ago
You can have many copies of your password manager database in many places, but you have only one Google. If you lose one thing, what would you rather lose? If you lose a password database, restore a backup. If you lose access to Google, what then? You can't restore a backup of Google. Stick around HN long enough, and within a week, you'll read stories of people losing access to their Google accounts for unexplained reasons (aside from a robot not liking them).
- enigma20 5y agoWow. I need to google this. Never seen any of those stories. Thanks.
- smrtinsert 5y agoCitations required. Are you referring to Android spam developers?
- igetspam 5y agoThere have been big deal stories of people losing access to their Gmail accounts and Google's response is basically "tough shit.". There are also a lot of them that don't get much traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745761 You can dig through the rest: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lost%20access%20to%20gmail https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lost%20access%20to%20gmail
- theandrewbailey 5y agoNot sure if these are spam devs, but these are from fairly established accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29428922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29428922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23183821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23183821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17428707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17428707
- smrtinsert 5y agoThis is insane of course, but I have no idea how to avoid Google in the modern tech world, especially if you use the Android platform.
- jjav 5y ago> This is insane of course, but I have no idea how to avoid Google in the modern tech world, especially if you use the Android platform. I don't have a google account tied to my android-based phone. The only drawback I'm aware of is that playstore doesn't work. So I download the apks directly and install that way, for things I can't install via one of the alternate app stores.
- enigma20 5y agoWhen I think of this shouldn't then people consider google business account? Which costs money but has also support? Doesn't then risk of random lock out go to zero? I don't know if anyone can create account there, but it just came on my mind.