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Why?
Because they could fire you?
IANAL but that sounds like something that'd end up in big boy court for wrongful termination with a lawyer on deferment.
Google disabled my husband's account
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Re: Google disabled my husband's account
#302My account at ads.google.com is suspended because of suspicious payments. I never did any payments.
I am running a full-scale business using admob and other Google services. I don't see any impact from the suspension on the other Google services luckily.
I send numerous appeals. Not even a single response. Already for 3 months now.
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#303It's incredibly Kafka-eqsue that you get banned for a supposed violation that you're supposed to appeal, but you don't know what you're being accused of doing. This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it's an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible. The remaining 1 time it's because someone knows how to abuse reporting systems to get someone…
I'll play the devils advocate: moderating any platform is a challenging endeavor, mostly because of malicious users. Having all the rules broken down in detail allows bad actors to either get close to the line but not cross it, or abuse the system while technically not breaking any rules. As such, having very broad rules (read TOS) helps. Additionally, not having to explain exactly what was violated means that people…
Running a government is also a challenging endeavor. Does that mean that the laws should be left obscure?
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#304They're begging for the European legislation to require mobility of email addresses as we have for mobile phone numbers.
How would that work on a technical level? Phone numbers are just sequential numbers, that are assigned to carriers, when consumers transfer numbers the carriers just re-assign ownership via an assignment swap. An email address by contrast is an undefined/minimally defined identifier in front of an @ and the message is just thrown to the domain to do something with. Which is to say, mobility is impossible, because the…
At least here in the UK, phone numbers are generally network specific - including mobile numbers. Companies don't just reassign ownership, the original owner of the number has to actively forward calls. This causes some issues when a provider goes out of business and Ofcom or whoever have to call around and ask nicely for someone to take on forwarding for their number ranges. (There's talk about fixing this with a big central database, but I don't think it's come to fruition yet.)
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You have a tiny window to download a huge archive and you can't restart the download. In theory it's great in practice you don't have access to it.
You can now link the takeout to another cloud provider (e.g. Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive). And configure the takeout to take place every two month (for up to 6 times). So you just need to configure the takeout once a year and you'll automatically receive a backup once every two month.
This is nice, thanks for pointing it out. It's a shame though you can't export to something like S3.
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Being in the same small claims venue as the company is actually a nice side benefit to living in the Bay Area, otherwise you potentially be looking at thousands to hire a lawyer in normal court.
Assuming you actually have been wronged Google will wind up paying all of your costs right?
Not necessarily. The court would have to specifically include that in their ruling.
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I don't think the internet was ever going to become regulated. What did occur post-2007 was that what made the internet work as a disparate ecosystem of loosely connected destinations (news groups, message boards, blogs, misc websites) that all played their own very important role, controlled and owned by their own communities became one platform under Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc... and was controlled and owned by…
I definitely think that what you're saying is true, and is part of the explanation. But another part is that the Wild West internet also had its own major issues -- roving bandits, to carry the analogy -- and these big companies did solve real problems that were only growing with time. Gmail's spam filtering. Recaptcha's bot rejection. Facebook's identity verification. Paypal's secure credit card processing. Google d…
> Gmail's spam filtering. Recaptcha's bot rejection.
> Facebook's identity verification.
The ability to choose an identity online not connected to your legal or in-person name, to make it more difficult to find and stalk you in person, is a feature, not a bug.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being in the same small claims venue as the company is actually a nice side benefit to living in the Bay Area, otherwise you potentially be looking at thousands to hire a lawyer in normal court.
Assuming you actually have been wronged Google will wind up paying all of your costs right?
IIRC, attorney fees are not typically allowable in small claims in California - wouldn't be surprised if there are exceptions.
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#309If someone wants to move away from a Google free account, is there a way to see of list of all sites/apps that they have previously granted OAuth access to? I found a way to view this if you have a paid admin account for your organization, but I don't see a way to view a list of previous OAuth granted requests for a free Google account.
I think the list is here: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions I'm not sure if it's a complete list however, as I use "sign in with google" for almost nothing (for exactly this reason).
Thanks for this. My list of sites that I have used my Google account to sign in instead of creating a dedicated account is over 4 pages long! I didn't realize that I use "sign in with Google" for so many sites. :-(
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#310"What am I being punished for? "
"Not going to tell you. But if you apologize, I might unpunish you."
Hmmm... Abusive relationship much Google?