7 billion people use Google. If you look at the likeliness of it happening to on...

bigbubba · on Oct 15, 2020

Worse: This sort of thing has happened to a lot more than just one guy. One in seven billion is way too optimistic.

ffpip · on Oct 15, 2020

You may have misunderstood. I didn't mean to say the likeliness of it happening to X6S1x6Okd1st is one in seven billion.

Tipewryter · on Oct 15, 2020

One guy out of 7 billion?

I had exactly one Google account and I lost it - along with all data - too. So for me it is one out of one.

No reason given. They just don't let me log in anymore.

X6S1x6Okd1st · on Oct 15, 2020

> If you look at the likeliness of it happening to one guy out of 7 billion, it would be very, very small

How small is the question.

cycop · on Oct 15, 2020

lol , 7 billion is way too high of an estimate of people actually using their free services to store valuable information.

I would say closer to 70 million

not2b · on Oct 15, 2020

This article claims 1.8 billion users (though some people have more than one account):

https://techjury.net/blog/gmail-statistics/

ffpip · on Oct 15, 2020

> I would say closer to 70 million

I want to negotiate, but since you started with such a low number, it won't be worth it.

700 million people only from my country (India) would be a good start if you want to continue.

creddit · on Oct 15, 2020

It’s probably closer to 70M but that’s probably absurdly off too. I bet there’s 70M people in the US alone who use Google services for valuable information. GMail alone is massive.