Google Drive is not your private hard drive.
A Japanese manga artist says his Google account was banned after uploading old manga files to Drive.
This is bigger than one creator.
One account can control:
Gmail
Drive
YouTube
Android
logins
recovery emails
business docs
creative archives
Use Google if you want.
But never let Google be the only copy, only inbox, only archive, and only identity you have.
Encrypted backups.
Local copies.
Separate accounts.
Domain email.
Restore tests.
Full breakdown:
https://thethriftydev.com/blog/google-drive-manga-artist-ban-cloud-backup-risk/
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