What is the strategic staying power of our Google Accounts?

· Bits and Bobs 4/13/26
  • What is the strategic staying power of our Google Accounts?
    • It used to be too much of a pain to extract our data into other services.
    • But now LLMs could plausibly do the cognitive labor given a Google Takeout dump.
    • The thing that would be hardest to leave is changing your gmail address for thousands of services.
      • That would be a huge amount of fiddly labor.
      • So it's largely a coordination cost moat.

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