It's passport photo or government-issued ID (mine is expired), which rather narrows down the options. They also want a photo of some bill mailed to my home address with my name on it, and we've been in the process of moving for several months. I have a garbage utility bill coming to our new place, just for big G, so hopefully that'll satisfy them.
The most annoying part was that when they turned off my billing, I had been paying for 200GB of GDrive space. Boop, it went to 15GB. Turns out it's shared with gmail, which means I had now exceeded my gmail quota by around 1200%.
But my gmail account kept functioning. They periodically said "You know, you really should purchase more storage..." but the service kept working.
Till Friday. Boop, all my emails shut off. Noticed it on Monday. Had to purge 185GB down to <15GB on my gdrive, and managed to just barely do it.
I dunno. I don't really feel like causing problems. Yeah it sucks, but I also get it, and I'm more of a "go with the flow" kind of person, and "periodically whine about it in a comment." But I'll go submit the damn passport photo and get it over with once our new house is set up. It was more of a mild annoyance than a disaster.
The most annoying part was that when they turned off my billing, I had been paying for 200GB of GDrive space. Boop, it went to 15GB. Turns out it's shared with gmail, which means I had now exceeded my gmail quota by around 1200%.
It's been off since April: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1381027951446171648
But my gmail account kept functioning. They periodically said "You know, you really should purchase more storage..." but the service kept working.
Till Friday. Boop, all my emails shut off. Noticed it on Monday. Had to purge 185GB down to <15GB on my gdrive, and managed to just barely do it.
I dunno. I don't really feel like causing problems. Yeah it sucks, but I also get it, and I'm more of a "go with the flow" kind of person, and "periodically whine about it in a comment." But I'll go submit the damn passport photo and get it over with once our new house is set up. It was more of a mild annoyance than a disaster.