Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

Post by kalleboo » Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 9:00 AM UTC

tedivm wrote: post #302

bdibs wrote: post #50

I actually just got my Google Ads account suspended because I forgot to update my billing address before adding a new card. The suspension was for "suspicious billing activity", tried appealing twice with the correct billing address, and was told the suspension is final (some automated email) both times. They won't take my calls because the account is suspended, which leaves me not being able to advertise on the #1 s…

When I was in college I ran a forum that got some decent traffic. I put Google Ads on my site and after a few months had enough money to pay for school books. I went to cash out and they suspended my account claiming click fraud and stole the money. This is how google has always operated, and it's one of the reasons why their near monopoly on advertising is horrible for everyone.

Post by ohazi » Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 9:21 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #452

SiVal wrote: post #225

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Caprices of TOS details, reviews, algorithms, service quality, or whatever are not the real problem. The real problem is when you can't reasonably choose to do business with someone else and move on, as they are free to do with you. Network effects are causing more and more important things to both expand into great significance and to be dominated by a single company (or pair of gatekeepers, both of whom must be app…

> I'm afraid that the only real recourse is to have certain anticompetitive regulations automatically kick in once a business rises above a certain percentage control of access to some market or medium that has become significant. Companies like to say they're providing a "platform"; maybe it's time for that to become a legally recognized concept.

Post by ttty » Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 9:37 AM UTC

qhwudbebd wrote: post #85

I note from the mention of £25k that you're probably in the UK. If you don't mind burning fifty quid or so, you might find it satisfying to use the small claims process to issue for a sensible (not super-inflated) estimate of damages. The below is not legal advice, but is written from personal experience. Try to leave a clear paper trail of your reasonableness: send a clear notice before action with a reasonable time…

Post by smadurange » Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 10:05 AM UTC

holoduke wrote: post #448

smadurange wrote: post #435

In some ways, I feel that this is a systemic problem with mobile app developers. Most these guys have barely any interest in technogy or innovation. As long as they can code something up and make a quick bug they are happy. They should have seen this coming when all their apps had to go through the playstore if they were serious about it. If they are half as serious about this as usual opensource community they would…

What a pile of crap you are saying. Generalizing entire groups. Very offending to some of us. The mobile dev industry is filled with talented and motivated Devs. What you say is not right. I would be the same as declaring you to the group of nerdy usually ugly developers working in dark rooms with pizza boxes everywhere. No interest for business and no interest for girls because they are all porn addicted.

Post by TheOtherHobbes » Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #419

cft wrote: post #412

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No, this article illustrates that Google took the effort disproportionate to the judgement amount. That means going hard.

OK. Under this definition of "going hard," literally all companies will "go hard" to defend themselves against incorrect small claims suits. The alternative is to always pay anyone who sues you for $100, since the effort of defending any individual suit in that amount will always be greater than the amount of the potential judgment. Of course, you can't do that, because then more people will start suing you for $100,…