I Got My Data Out of Google - Here's What They Did to It on the Way Out

📰 Dev.to · Todd Tanner

Google Takeout gave me 263 GB of split zips, broken filenames, stripped metadata, and dead deletion links. It took 2 days, custom scripts, and 6 failed Gemini attempts to escape. Here's what I found.

Published 8 Apr 2026
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