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by KiwiJohnno 2174 days ago
I never use login with Google, because if one day some automated process decided to suspend my account then I'd also lose access to all other systems I was using Google for authentication.

You're basically at the mercy of getting hold of google's nearly nonexistant support to get this resolved

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As a user with a $19/year Google One subscription, I find Google support quite easy to reach.
Unless you get auto-suspended and end up receiving non-answers as explanations until you drum up enough twitter attention for a non-outsourced support employee to revert the decision and say "We identified an error that automatically suspended your account and have resolved the issue" a week of frustration later.
I also pay $dollars/year for Google. Turns out, when you start paying people money, and it becomes a legal liability for them to screw up, they act...better?

I have a one-click button to download all my data from Google (which turns out to be an absolute pain because it's in the ~100s of GB range).

Yeah, good luck with that button after they've pushed theirs first.
But will they still treat you that way after an errant classifier puts you in the wrong bin?