Does getting your google account blocked prevent you from using GCP? There are so many stories of people losing access to google accounts that it seems way too risky to use GCP when this sort of thing can happen.
If you have to use GCP, use a burner account… because Google is absolutely asinine right now.
I would not trust Google if they were a hired employee to turn on my sprinklers in the morning.
Edit: For this reason, I am actually all in favor of having GCP, AWS, Azure, etc declared utilities. Unless there is a crime, we have a right to an account. Your electricity company can’t cut you off whenever they feel like.
Does that actually help? Don't they collect enough of your data to be able to correlate accounts?
Imagine losing your contacts, your photos, your emails with clients, your cloud setup… because you had the humanity to take care of your child.
It is impossible to underestimate Google now.
Much worse - losing access to iCloud/iPhone would be disastrous
The way I see it, if you don't mind price, you go with AWS (most polished). If you mind price gcp isn't really much cheaper, so you go with something actually cheap like OCI.
The sales slogan is something like, "All the costs of AWS, all the automation of a bare metal box!"
Ironically, more suitable to manually point-and-click or phone-call managed "lift and shift" than the infra-as-code clouds.
Cynically, fairly typical vendor lock-in.
From a non-technologist perspective, is a linked Android device becomes neutered?
Apps, games, movies, books, youtube paid things, etc.
But that's why I back up my media in the first place, Google can't steal my epub of the book I bought, nor can audible steal the m4a of the audiobook I bought.
even if you were to run a domain name zonefile that pointed its MX at something non-google and had zero A records or CNAMEs pointing at things hosted on GCP, you'd still risk being unable to login or admin your domain.
It wouldn't take much for Google to turn this around, that's the really screwed up part. All the would have to do to regain trust is come out and admit their system did something wrong and provide recourse for resolution in these cases. Instead they just double down and hope people forget.