Losing five years of your life overnight
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The commonalities in this scene amazed me. How come there hasn't been a class action yet? Not on the individuals breach: on the lack of a fair process to review which is comprehensible and documented.
Every one of these i read about here have two useful comments: firstly, do not skip any step in the sequence google demands you use to communicate with them,
and secondly have friends on the inside, or achieve critical mass in a shameless public takedown.
Well yeh because you guys deleted it...
End of communication. nothing I can do and No one I can contact...
I guess the second one is what he's going for with this.
First step was to kill myself but the suicide hotline stopped me.
And second, I find it very hard to believe that backups don't exist, especially so in circumstances such as this case. (Even Blind Freddy would know that failing to do backups in these circumstances would ultimately have major consequences for Google—either from legal action brought on by aggrieved users and or legislative changes that will result in negative outcomes for Google.)
If you're not one of the 'Big Boys', you're only here on sufferance.
The lesson is not to waste lots of your time and angst on "Other Peoples' Patch". If you're not paying, you're just part of the product.