Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

Post by amaccuish » Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 11:38 PM UTC

Godel_unicode wrote: post #34

janoc wrote: post #15

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And why do you think this isn't intentional? Spending money on people solving company's screwups costs a lot of money. For the company the size of Google or Facebook one client (or hundred) like this are peanuts, drop in the bucket. The cost of losing them is minimal over the costs of paying a support person to deal with problems. Big client won't get banned - and if they do, they have also a non-public phone number…

> ...with ISPs it is almost impossible to find a contact to an actual person... What ISP are you talking about? I've never had trouble getting a real person with Verizon, CenturyLink, or ATT. You might have to wait on hold for a few dozen minutes, but that's a separate issue.

Post by alyandon » Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 11:45 PM UTC

Post by kube-system » Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 11:50 PM UTC

howdisposs45 wrote: post #183

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In the example thread above, people are reacting by complaining about the problem. If they reacted by switching email providers, they wouldn’t be in that thread. I highly doubt Gmail’s active user count is affected by any more than a minuscule amount as a result.

to me, your explanation doesn't really explain how an active development team can ignore that issue. If it were just a handful of users talking about an esoteric corner case I could maybe understand.

Post by scarface74 » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 12:11 AM UTC

zenexer wrote: post #190

scarface74 wrote: post #182

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I’ve never once had a problem reaching a live human that could solve my problem on the business side working with AWS. As a consumer I’ve never had any issues with Amazon retail.

It's pretty difficult to reach a human if you don't pay a ridiculous extra amount each month for support--and even then, they're rarely able to assist with actual bugs. They just assume everything that's wrong is your mistake, and when they finally come to the conclusion that it's a bug on their end, they give up.

Post by Marsymars » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 12:16 AM UTC

ianferrel wrote: post #194

Marsymars wrote: post #112

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> What damages can you prove? Well, that really depends on the case and jurisdiction, I can't answer that for you. Really, the key part is to force Google to actually provide reasoning for their actions, as they eventually did in the case I edited in links for.

Going to court twice to get Google to pay $0 in damages and not reinstate your account doesn't sound like "the easiest thing" to me. It's at best a Pyrrhic victory. I get the desire to impose costs on Google for their bad actions, but this doesn't seem like a very productive plan.