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> Is there a history of Google de-activating accounts arbitrarily?

Yes.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+%22google%2...

Example:

https://support.google.com/adsense/thread/11487570?hl=en

"I uploaded a YouTube video, which was a normal video in my eyes.. that got removed for inappropriate content and got my account disabled. Now my access to the gmail address is blocked"

Being banned from Youtube because you violated their TOS is one thing. Losing access to Gmail at the same time, because everything is linked to the same Google account? That's excessive.

That's a fair criticism, and perhaps a good reason to not use Gmail. But that's not an arbitrary deactivation, and it doesn't support totally avoiding Google in all things.

Can you be more specific? I see two links that are directly related to account suspension on the front page of DDG. One related to Newpipe, where the comments on HN call it out as a likely troll, and another with a dead link.

Here's a better search of this stuff:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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