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July 19, 2011 16 words · 1 min read by Ben Wilkoff

And…

I’m locked out of my gmail account again.

I promise. I’m not doing anything unusual.

20 comments from the original blog. Comments are closed now; the conversation moved to Bluesky.

Mark MoranJuly 19, 2011

A cautionary tale for anyone who builds their entire online life around Google. I’ve heard horror stories of people violating, or appearing to violate, the TOS of one of Google’s services and, without warning, permanently losing access to all of them, with no opportunity to back anything up.
Mark MoranJuly 19, 2011

A cautionary tale for anyone who builds their entire online life around Google. I’ve heard horror stories of people violating, or appearing to violate, the TOS of one of Google’s services and, without warning, permanently losing access to all of them, with no opportunity to back anything up.
Mark MoranJuly 19, 2011

A cautionary tale for anyone who builds their entire online life around Google. I’ve heard horror stories of people violating, or appearing to violate, the TOS of one of Google’s services and, without warning, permanently losing access to all of them, with no opportunity to back anything up.
Mark MoranJuly 19, 2011

A cautionary tale for anyone who builds their entire online life around Google. I’ve heard horror stories of people violating, or appearing to violate, the TOS of one of Google’s services and, without warning, permanently losing access to all of them, with no opportunity to back anything up.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I’m back in now, but I think that the 15 plugins that I use on top of gmail are starting to catch up with me.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I’m back in now, but I think that the 15 plugins that I use on top of gmail are starting to catch up with me.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I’m back in now, but I think that the 15 plugins that I use on top of gmail are starting to catch up with me.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I’m back in now, but I think that the 15 plugins that I use on top of gmail are starting to catch up with me.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I couldn’t agree more. I am very happy with the choices I have made to trust my data to Google, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t perform backups on occasion. I do think that my own actions are to blame for me being locked out (second time in two weeks), but I don’t know which actions those are at the moment.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I couldn’t agree more. I am very happy with the choices I have made to trust my data to Google, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t perform backups on occasion. I do think that my own actions are to blame for me being locked out (second time in two weeks), but I don’t know which actions those are at the moment.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I couldn’t agree more. I am very happy with the choices I have made to trust my data to Google, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t perform backups on occasion. I do think that my own actions are to blame for me being locked out (second time in two weeks), but I don’t know which actions those are at the moment.
Ben WilkoffJuly 19, 2011

I couldn’t agree more. I am very happy with the choices I have made to trust my data to Google, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t perform backups on occasion. I do think that my own actions are to blame for me being locked out (second time in two weeks), but I don’t know which actions those are at the moment.
Glenn MosesJuly 20, 2011

Ben – You might find this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/it8ah/when_google_deletes_you/

and it’s resolution:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/iucay/when_google_undeletes_you/

interesting. Good luck.
Glenn MosesJuly 20, 2011

Ben – You might find this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/it8ah/when_google_deletes_you/

and it’s resolution:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/iucay/when_google_undeletes_you/

interesting. Good luck.
Glenn MosesJuly 20, 2011

Ben – You might find this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/it8ah/when_google_deletes_you/

and it’s resolution:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/iucay/when_google_undeletes_you/

interesting. Good luck.
Glenn MosesJuly 20, 2011

Ben – You might find this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/it8ah/when_google_deletes_you/

and it’s resolution:

http://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/iucay/when_google_undeletes_you/

interesting. Good luck.
Ben WilkoffJuly 20, 2011

Yeah… it is okay now, but I think that the only way things get fixed with a company as big as Google is to be as squeaky as possible like this user did.
Ben WilkoffJuly 20, 2011

Yeah… it is okay now, but I think that the only way things get fixed with a company as big as Google is to be as squeaky as possible like this user did.
Ben WilkoffJuly 20, 2011

Yeah… it is okay now, but I think that the only way things get fixed with a company as big as Google is to be as squeaky as possible like this user did.
Ben WilkoffJuly 20, 2011

Yeah… it is okay now, but I think that the only way things get fixed with a company as big as Google is to be as squeaky as possible like this user did.

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