That’s a real reason I don’t comment on YouTube or risk using any other Google services except Gmail and Voice.
God forbid I chargeback a purchase on Google Pay (or whatever their PayPal is this year) and trip some anti-fraud system that locks me out of my 20 year old email account. We all know their support is either automated or nonexistent, so it’s not worth the risk.
But there‘s many providers that you pay actual money to (Like Fastmail) and if something goes wrong you, as a customer and not a potential ad target, are their top priority and you can call a human on the phone.
Oddly enough, the EU isn’t racing to bust down the door of these “gatekeepers” and require third-party interoperability with this socially-critical service.
Pretty much just an apple thing as far as I can see.
God forbid I chargeback a purchase on Google Pay (or whatever their PayPal is this year) and trip some anti-fraud system that locks me out of my 20 year old email account. We all know their support is either automated or nonexistent, so it’s not worth the risk.