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Many people have spent money with Google: Google Play purchases, Google One, Youtube Premium, whatever music service they're pushing these days, Google Domains, AdSense, a linked GApps account for your business... Some dude is already suing Apple for deleting his iCloud account that had a bunch of app purchases on it.

But monetary loss is far from the only thing you can sue someone over. If you can sue a store that you never even went into because you walked past it an slipped on ice that was technically on their property, twisting your ankle (and in many places, you can), I see no reason why you shouldn't be a able to sue Google for deleting your entire digital life (keep in mind that basically everything is tied to your email), even if you were using their services for free.

I know I'd much rather break my leg than have to deal with the disaster that would ensue if my Gmail were deleted, and I've been slowly migrating off of it for years now.

Edit: I guess a better analogy would be a company providing free warehose space (maybe for a temporary opening promo). They market it as a safe warehouse so you put your stuff in there, then they take it and shred it. In response they say that their parent company also owns a convenience store chain and one time, you looked at a cashier there funny. They point you to the ToS that is printed on the roof of the warehouse in 12pt Comic Sans.




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