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>As someone who got his google account blocked and got locked out of half of the internet, Say again please? How did you get locked out of so much I ask? I use

>As someone who got his google account blocked and got locked out of half of the internet, Say again please? How did you get locked out of so much I ask? I use one gmail account for mostly unimportant emailing and as a dumping ground for email signups that later spam you to death with "promotions". That's about it, and I'm able to use a hell of a lot more than "half the internet". I'm honestly curious about the mechanics of how and why one could let aving, or losing, a google account affect them so much.

63stack 1y ago
Does this really take so much imagination? They used their Google account for signing up to everything else, so when they lost access to the Google account they were locked out of everything else as well.
- southernplaces7 1y ago
  Given Google's well known history of randomly blocking accounts with no clear reason and no normal route for recourse, I can't fathom why anyone would do such a thing. Even back in the early years, it happened often enough to be leery of depending on this company for so much.
littlecranky67 1y ago
Long story, I give the brief summary: I signed up around 2006 for gmail bringing my own domain (that was free at that time). Over the years, that "gmail" was turned into google accounts. Since 2012 google decided custom domains are no longer free, but kept existing users if it was non-commercial usage. Somewhen around 2023 they decided to kick out users using their own domain, forcing them to convert to paid google workspace subscription. I compared prices and instead moved my domain to Microsoft365. Since then the first thing I login with google is a message telling me that I need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription. All my notes in google keep were gone, google maps bookmarks etc. And yes, I can't even access those free services google offers anymore with that account.

63stack 1y ago

Does this really take so much imagination? They used their Google account for signing up to everything else, so when they lost access to the Google account they were locked out of everything else as well.

southernplaces7 1y ago
Given Google's well known history of randomly blocking accounts with no clear reason and no normal route for recourse, I can't fathom why anyone would do such a thing. Even back in the early years, it happened often enough to be leery of depending on this company for so much.

littlecranky67 1y ago

Long story, I give the brief summary: I signed up around 2006 for gmail bringing my own domain (that was free at that time). Over the years, that "gmail" was turned into google accounts. Since 2012 google decided custom domains are no longer free, but kept existing users if it was non-commercial usage. Somewhen around 2023 they decided to kick out users using their own domain, forcing them to convert to paid google workspace subscription. I compared prices and instead moved my domain to Microsoft365. Since then the first thing I login with google is a message telling me that I need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription. All my notes in google keep were gone, google maps bookmarks etc. And yes, I can't even access those free services google offers anymore with that account.