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I can't help with the account closure, but I can guarantee you that your account was not closed because of a face your kid made. That's not something any automa

I can't help with the account closure, but I can guarantee you that your account was not closed because of a face your kid made. That's not something any automated tool would detect, and if it was private nobody should have reported the video either which would have triggered anything. I can tell you that YouTube is not the right place for storing family videos. Google Photos is more appropriate for that, and you should be using Google Takeout on a regular basis to back everything up to a hard drive or secondary cloud service. We should all be aware by now that what in 1995 was "my hard drive stopped working and I lost all my data", is now in 2024 "my account got closed and I lost all my data". As consumers, we now back up primarily not because disks break, but because we lose access. (I'm not condoning Google here, just saying that this is the sad reality with any cloud provider.)

adastra22 2y ago
Frankly I don't think any Google service is the appropriate place to be storing irreplaceable family data.
- crazygringo 2y ago
  I think it's as fine as any other major cloud service as long as you have a backup. And for irreplaceable family data, you should always have a backup. That's the main point here.
  - dakiol 2y ago
    I would even go further and say: why store the pictures in the cloud at all? Keep them local always (with backups). If you want to share photos with others, send them explicitly (via email or chat). Many advantages: - access is forbidden by default to everyone except you - you don’t know what the platform providers will do with your photos anyway (you cannot trust them anymore) - you can access your photos offline
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- sircastor 2y ago
  I don’t think you’re wrong, but also consider the costs associated with trying to setup and manage your own backup. Easy for many of us here, but the “average” person faces not only the technical barriers, but the actual cost of devices. People don’t have $400 for an emergency [1] but need to spend $100-$300 for a level backup - and it’s just an insurance device. Google is offering to painlessly, invisibly backup your photos. It’s not hard to see why peeled go with it, and trust it to be there. [1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm
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adastra22 2y ago

Frankly I don't think any Google service is the appropriate place to be storing irreplaceable family data.

crazygringo 2y ago
I think it's as fine as any other major cloud service as long as you have a backup. And for irreplaceable family data, you should always have a backup. That's the main point here.
- dakiol 2y ago
  I would even go further and say: why store the pictures in the cloud at all? Keep them local always (with backups). If you want to share photos with others, send them explicitly (via email or chat). Many advantages: - access is forbidden by default to everyone except you - you don’t know what the platform providers will do with your photos anyway (you cannot trust them anymore) - you can access your photos offline
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sircastor 2y ago
I don’t think you’re wrong, but also consider the costs associated with trying to setup and manage your own backup. Easy for many of us here, but the “average” person faces not only the technical barriers, but the actual cost of devices. People don’t have $400 for an emergency [1] but need to spend $100-$300 for a level backup - and it’s just an insurance device. Google is offering to painlessly, invisibly backup your photos. It’s not hard to see why peeled go with it, and trust it to be there. [1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm

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