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Eradicating Google from my online life
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ataradov:

--- Quote from: ebastler on November 12, 2023, 07:31:17 pm ---@ataradov -- last time you checked, did you run an oligarch empire anywhere?  :D

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If I did, I'd like to know. May be I don't have to go to work on Monday.

The only things I can see them considering as "irregularities" would be use of VPN for registration and the name on the credit card is my full legal name Alexander vs preferred name Alex on the account. 

But I don't see why any of this would be a problem. VPNs are common and in many cases unavoidable. And if payment method is an issue, they could have told me and I would have used PayPal or something.

I don't mind providing any supporting info they need, I just don't want to be in a position where I try to register account over and over trying to guess what they want. Which itself could be flagged.

It is also too bad that you have to provide all the info at the registration time, so there is no way to solve one issue at a time. It would be fine if they allowed me to have an account and have a look at the control panel, but ask for a payment method before adding any service that costs money.
SiliconWizard:
Anyway, you can't completely eradicate Google from your life. Resistance is futile.
Halcyon:
I often hear people wanting to distance themselves from Google because of tracking, advertising etc... etc... But one thing to keep in mind: The free Google services (e.g.: Gmail) are a completely different beast to Google Workspace even though they might look the same on the surface.

If you love the features you get with Google but want granular control of your information, then your own domain paired with Google Workspace is the way to go. Everything can be finely tuned, even down to location history being completely disabled if that's what you want. You can enable/disable individual Google services so the junk you don't use won't even run if you try.

Running your own mail server these days is a whole world of hurt and administration that even some of the more hardcore sysadmins tend to distance themselves from and I have to say, Google's spam/phishing filtering is probably among the best in the world.
ataradov:
A common complaint that I hear from Workspace users us that it is not at feature parity with the regular free service. I don't expect most people to care, but still something to keep in mind. All the new features (like AI, new UIs) lag in Workspace sometimes by months, sometimes don't appear at all.
abeyer:

--- Quote from: ataradov on November 12, 2023, 07:41:48 pm ---The only things I can see them considering as "irregularities" would be use of VPN for registration

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That's almost certainly it. Many "high risk" payment processing scenarios have all but banned VPN traffic (though they won't tell you this)... if you're a consumer but your traffic doesn't originate from a consumer ISP's network you'll be flagged as fraud.
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