Google has disabled my old gmail account snv985@gmail.com

Google has disabled my old gmail account snv985@gmail.com:
https://i.imgur.com/DADMVsv.png

On the request of Russian Federation. Because sending threatening mails to FSB "breaks Google's ToS". And no. There is no way to get unbanned. Ever. Moral: never use Google, it is the enemy of your freedom.

Do we need any more proofs that Google is a Russian whore?

BTW, Google is very sneaky about it and never directly says that you're banned, the Google ban always looks like the attached screenshot, and their tech support is very hesitant disclosing the actual ban reason.

In all seriousness fuck Google. I had few GMail boxes, as well, as YouTube accounts. Used them only when really needed. Shit started happening last year - even though I kept entering correct passwords, these scum wouldn't allow me in, unless I gave them a phone number. Fuck these faggots, they will never get any. I looked for some temporary burner ones, but no luck so far. I will one day try to find some way to retrieve my data (fortunately for me it isn't that important or invaluable).

In the most ridiculous case, one of my YouTube accounts had an extra, non-Google, emergency e-mail address defined - so first it asked to verify through that mailbox. But after that succeeded, this pesky little shit still dared to demand a phone number.

So the conclusions for all others are the following:

• Retrieve and backup (on external magnetic media or M-Discs for best results) all your data from any Google services (most desirably all your data in general - doing backups should be a natural habit for anyone working on computers anyway)
• Diversify your e-mail providers as well as other Internet services, make sure to have an alternative in case Google shows you the middle finger
• Get rid of any Google software and stop using their services, wherever it's viable, relatively hassle-less and possible to do so
• Block their advertisements, scripts and widgets, advocate others against them. If you run a company or manage IT stuff at one, check, if you can make it rely (internally) less on any shit from Google - for example make the employees use browsers other than Chrome.

Whenever possible, I search with DuckDuckGo - sometimes however, I just have to switch back to Google. I use Pale Moon as a browser. A actively download all YouTube videos I like or deem important, using a youtube-dl fork called youtube-dlc ( https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc ). For serious, personal e-mail, I've been using other free providers anyway - not known much worldwide, but popular in my country. One of them even allows for attachments up to 100 MB.