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Google can close your email account down at any time for any stupid reason they like and their nonexistant support will leave you standing in the rain without access to years of mails. Switch to a paid mailer with actual support ASAP
I once paid for Lavabit email and it was then raided by the NSA/CIA/FBI (Snowden case) and they shut everything down. I lost access to my account and to a 3rd party account that had a considerable amount of money pending withdrawal. I was never able to get the money. Lesson learnt: paying for your email won't save you.
Ya, never trust US companies. Their government's crazy to jump in and take anything they want; you may not even know they took it.
Well... Not sure if other gov won't act the same way in a similar situation.
I would rather say "do not trust companies that are in a jurisdiction friendly to yours".
I rarely use my old Gmail account, now when I try to log in they ask me to get into a logged session of Google to verify it's me, as I have no session open with my Google account, I can't do it. It's been a time I wasn't able to log in back to Google without an error message "Google can not verify it is me who is trying to log in"... I don't know how to log in, I have the emails re-directed to my new email provider and I still get emails, one of the emails I got is that if I don't log in the next 2 years, my account will be deleted, so looks like I lost this account with all the data of when I was younger, it's sad, but I don't really need google. This could be an example of "account closed", as I have no open sessions to verify myself and Google should know it.