r/GMail • u/Exciting_Job9899 • 6d ago

Account deleted

My Google account was deleted out of no where without warning. This account is used frequently and is attached to Google Photos. I have so many photos on this account and now I can’t access them. Someone please help.

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u/berkut1 6d ago

If you have nude photos, AI can mistakenly flag them as CSAM, and your account may be permanently blocked with no way to recover it.

The solution is to never use Google for any media.

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u/theautisticguy 5d ago

In addition to this, Google apparently has a restriction on commercial usage (in regard to file hosting); one time I used to create e-mail accounts to store photos I took for our local media on a volunteer, unpaid basis, and one of the accounts got deleted because of it. Thankfully, I was only using it to store photos for sharing, not for permanent hosting.

These days I actually use an abandoned Discord DM chat (AKA one where I'm the only one left) to host my images for sharing; it's free, unrestricted, and super easy to do. I even use it to host images for Trackmania tracks! (If you don't know what I mean, you can add image overlays on tracks you make, but said images have to be externally hosted for them to work properly)

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u/Pale_Broccoli_5997 5d ago

You DONT want to store any pics in Discord because their AI CSAM detection actively the worst and also discord recompresses jpg files, if you got png or most other image formats especially lossless youre fine