An interesting story as this can happen to anyone and if your only source of data or service is with that cloud provider you could end up being locked out of your "life". You get to access your data at the pleasure of such a cloud service provider, especially if it is a "free" service, and there is often no human you can reach.
I use Thunderbird on my desktop to sync all my mail, calendaring, etc offline so I have copies of the data but what if my GMail address is being used for 2-factor authentication to access other services online? You want to rather use a 2FA app liker Authy that syncs across your devices (in case you lose one of your key devices), and have a secondary e-mail address registered with any service providers. I also sync my key photos from online services back to my hard drive locally.
It is worth thinking about your plan to mitigate such risks as many times a lock out is caused by an automated tool from something you uttered somewhere or a post you made at that service. We’ve even seen innocent specialist / hobby word terminology triggering auto blocks by online services.
This is by no means only Google related and applies to any online cloud service. The reality is you don’t control your data online, and often not even the format it is saved in. Cloud sounds clever, but in reality it is no different to using someone else’s servers.
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