[account-5]

I have Gmail accounts but none of them are for anything critical or important. I create a new one with every android device I get.

Google lost my trust for anything more than a random account I need (Google makes you need) for using an android device when years ago they made me provide a DOB, and I misstyped it putting the current year instead of my birth year in.

Next thing I know my account was locked because I was too young to have one. At the time I was able to contact them but had to provide ID and confirm a credit card for age verification. I reluctantly did this because at the time I had important stuff in that account. After that I moved anything critical to a trustworthy service that isn't selling my data to advertiser and shut the account down.

I'm glad I did because things have got worse since. Now I don't use any Google service, with a few exceptions.

[elorant]

This is all nice, but you're not answering the freaking question. I'm tired of this line of reasoning in here. Someone asks something specific, and then everybody jumps in to tell his/her story which while informative, doesn't solve the initial issue.

Please, for fuck's sake. Stay on the topic.

[account-5]

Oh the irony.

[0des]

they're not wrong. it's a very reddit way of communicating. people criticize then get right to story time. when youre in this situation, you couldnt give a fuck less about someones tangential testimonial.

[account-5]

Please see my previous comment. I'm not on Reddit nor did I criticise anyone. Unfortunately I can't remove the original offending comment to assuage the butthurt, even if I don't agree that talking about my experience with Google in a thread about OPs experience with Google is off topic. This comment is though, but ironically as a reply to a comment demanding things be kept on topic that moves things further from the topic.

[0des]

You're doing too much