I had an anonymous Google account I had been using with Grayjay. Today, they decided I must be a bot.

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• Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google is like a useful acquaintance who inevitably one day will pull a knife and threaten to cut you. You have to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is true even if you are an enterprise customer

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use them, dont let them use you.

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google is like a useful acquaintance who inevitably one day will pull a knife and threaten to cut you

    Umm…that does not sound like an acquaintance

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    • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But are they useful?

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why wait? Everyone should start migrating away from that shit yesterday.

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been anticipating then begging me for more personal info…I went ahead and created a new paid email with separate provider, migrated all my personal important stuff to that and set it up with my own domain .

  The day they demand more info, I’ll just abandon it.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If Google wants to do so, they can do the same with YouTube.

    There are other email providers out there, but there’s only really one service like YouTube.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All it means is I’ll have more free time without being addicted to random Videos on YouTube. It’ll probably be better for my mental health when they cripple yt that bad where I just won’t use it other then emergency DIY stuff

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    • IceFoxX@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are better video platforms in terms of structure etc. and also for self-hosting with peertube. The problem is that people can’t migrate to an alternative of the same size. It’s the chicken and egg problem. The big ones were just lucky to be the first at the right time.

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  • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is the most private way to register a domain? Considering switching from hotmail to a Raspberry PI (postfix) mail server.

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• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Charge your phone

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  • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is charging

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• phcastro@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I created an IG to be a porn account , to see NSFW content and follow pornstars, the such. I don’t even have a normal IG, I started following people and out of nowhere IG decided I was a bot. Maybe because I only followed people and actually never browsed IG feed. In any case I needed to provide a phone number. Never did it, lost the account and the funny part is, I created the account using my FB account, but the FB account was never got flagged or banned. Since it is all meta I thought that they had better integration. In any case it seems the email address is blacklisted forever and I don’t know if it is worth creating another email just to see some risqué pictures.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Had that happen to me without using Grayjay.

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, many people do use Google services for malicious purposes, so its kinda understandable.

  I see you have the VPN icon on, so getting constant searches, youtube watches, or logins from the same IP that is shared by other users of the same vpn would be red flags. Not saying I agree with them, but that’s just how corporations see things. (and, of course, the personal information is a huge bonus)

  Fun fact: Many websites block VPN or Tor traffic. Even a lemmy instance does that (lemmy.world)

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