[HN Gopher] Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after ...
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       Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account
       ban
        
       Author : _hao
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2021-02-08 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
       | Other discussion on this topic:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935
        
       | unstatusthequo wrote:
       | I think it's been time for awhile. De-Googling is hard. I'm still
       | trying. Email is the last one...
        
         | p2t2p wrote:
         | I don't get it, mate. Email is like the easiest. Get Fastmail,
         | pre-pay for three years, go into settings, use import from
         | Google, bam, Calendars, contacts, email is all sucked in from
         | Google and also email and calendar sync configured.
        
           | zeeZ wrote:
           | That is the easy part. To truly degoogle I have to update 15
           | years worth of accounts and contacts that might send me mail
           | on this address or use it for recovery.
        
             | LilBytes wrote:
             | Yeah, it's tedious. But worth doing. I didn't do it in one
             | go, I kept an eye on my Gmail and slowly moved the email
             | across that sent me messages or when logging into that
             | service for the first time.
        
       | obviouslynotme wrote:
       | The default Google experience is top notch. When it works, it
       | works fantastically. But when you fall off that golden path for
       | any reason, you have some of the worst experiences imaginable. I
       | have moved everything I can off of Google except for my company's
       | email service, and that is coming soon. You cannot trust them to
       | provide even the smallest customer service for people who are
       | paying hundreds of dollars per month or more. You are more likely
       | to get better customer service from cable companies, an industry
       | with customer service so universally reviled that South Park has
       | an episode on it.
        
       | tom_mellior wrote:
       | This headline is... not great. The developer's main complaint was
       | losing access to an account with 15 years' worth of email. And
       | yes, also their own YouTube _channel_. But  "YouTube account ban"
       | is open to misinterpretation, as if it were "just" an account
       | used for viewing/commenting.
        
       | chris_wot wrote:
       | I think it is high time for us all to explore different services
       | than Google. This includes search.
        
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