Today on my usual Monday evening national network radio tech segment, I'll be discussing how so many innocent users get locked out of their #Google accounts, often losing all of their email and other data in the process -- due to Google's abysmal account recovery systems, their lack of genuine user support beyond decrepit and largely useless "help forums", and how Google over the years has steadfastly refused to even consider meaningful suggestions to improve the situation.

@lauren Don't forget how it too me more than three years to get paid on an AdSense account that was screwed up when Google crunched its contact database. The problem was resolved only when a saintly Google person walked the hallways on our behalf.

@karlauerbach @lauren Haven't seen a penny out of AdSense in years. Long ago it was making me money. Today, my traffic is much higher and not a penny. Hahaha.

There are very smart people running Google these days.

@shuttersparks @lauren I have an ancient chromebook that I use for reading news and stuff. I never log in to Google or to the websites.

So I get the most bottom-feeders of ads - gold sellers, cool-your-house-with ice cubes from your refrigerator, motorcycles for people who can't walk, etc.

I often click on those ads, even going to far as to build up a shopping card (which I abandon) in hopes of generating click revenue to the news site that I am reading.

@karlauerbach @lauren Hahahaha. I wish I had time for such antics. I don't even have time for my main hobby of ham radio. These days I'm writing software for LoRa projects and having fun. (In addition to my job as a chef.)