This could be years’ worth of documents, family photos, emails, Google Play purchases, and much more (ever used “Sign in with Google” on another service, for example?). Often the account closures are reported to have been accompanied with vague automated notifications from Google complaining that the account-holder violated their terms in some way, but without any specific details or an offer of appeal or process to resolve the “issues” and reinstate the accounts.Īs such, these events usually mark the end of the road for the victims’ presence and data on Google platforms - including Gmail, Drive, Photos, YouTube - without having any option to extract the data out first.

Disclaimer: The challenge focuses on writing frequency rather than quality, and so posts may not always be fully planned out!īy now I’m sure everyone has heard the horror stories about people (seemingly-) randomly losing access to their Google accounts.

This article is one of a series of posts I have written for the 100 Days to Offload challenge.

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