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Which is crazy to me...Google is...

Your photo manager

Your search engine

Your document storage service

Your health monitor

Your contacts list

Your video hosting facility

Your calendar

Your document editor

Your location history

Your music engine

And I have no doubt I'm missing a load here, point being why the fuck has the EU not stepped in at this point and said "woah buddy, you're a tad too big to be this unregulated".

The EU needs to enforce stricter regulation across all Google products, such as making it illegal to "ban" or lock out an account by means of an AI facility without human resolution within 6 hours or less (6 hours is a maximum, anything above incurs an hourly fine).

These must be regulated like a public service, because the risk of losing access to an online account can be devastating.

The onus, however, is on YOU to diversify, have redundant email addresses (forward+store a copy) so in the event one is RIP you are not boned entirely.



Not to mention:

Your password manager

Your 2FA authenticator

Your notes manager

Your domain name provider

Your cloud provider

Your browser

Your operating system

Your smart home

Your phone number

Your mobile ISP

Your analytics provider


And, should you post too many emojis in a YouTube comment, you'll lose access to all of these things.




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