Google, Google, Google! When will you guys learn that you simply can't do this? You want me to use Google Cloud Platform but you keep killing off apps and locking people's accounts. Why would I trust you with my livelihood? The PR fallout from stories like this is killing your chances.
Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
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Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#192Hey Google here is a feature: account reputation, anyone doing business with you, has that flag enabled and human reviewers will be supporting them
100% agree. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot. Unbelievable.
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their new slogan is hilarious. It's not even one slogan, it's three: * Respect the user * Respect the opportunity * Respect each other The first one is obviously a joke, because nothing says "respect the user" like canceling a beloved service with millions of users, or "updating" the product while losing half the features. The last one makes you wonder why they had to put it into a slogan. Isn't it the baseline expec…
TIL the Mafia has a pretty decent, humane code of conduct.
Hypothesis: the internal operations of any sufficiently large organized crime group become indistinguishable from those of a corporation.
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#194This happens again and again. I have had that happen to my twitter account. I see this regulary on HN. My suspicion is that this is mostly happening because platforms that big like google or twitter rely very heavily on machine learning and other AI related technology to ban people. Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high. So I get why t…
>Why would they continue like that.
Sheer hubris?
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#195This makes me anxious about my long time Gmail address. Back then I got it just because it and Google was cool, and their services had a good reputation. It was a different Google back then. If they had launched it this year I would never have got one because chances are it would have been cancelled by 2025. Gmail is really the only valuable thing that actually ties my life to Google. And it's not that hard to replac…
I've been considering getting a new email address on a personal domain so it can be more portable and I can change providers. Does anyone recommend any alternate providers with custom domains, or some OSS? Is it possible to host your own email server on a NAS or RPi something?
I just recently setup Zoho and seem to be working fine so far. Their web mail interface is decent but I don’t use it much.
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Start the process of getting out right now. Get an email address that you own, on a domain you control. Switch to a provider that takes your money for whom you are the customer - not the product. I did this with Fastmail and Iki.fi, a Finnish non-profit[1], who have been selling people "permanent" email addresses since 1995. [1] http://www.iki.fi/
If you get your own domain, get one on a well-known TLD (e.g. .com, .org or your own country code). If you get a gTLD that's not well-known, there are some endpoints that will block you because your email is "not valid".
This is true, I bought a .club domain and had to realise that some providers classify it as spam.
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Start the process of getting out right now. Get an email address that you own, on a domain you control. Switch to a provider that takes your money for whom you are the customer - not the product. I did this with Fastmail and Iki.fi, a Finnish non-profit[1], who have been selling people "permanent" email addresses since 1995. [1] http://www.iki.fi/
If you get your own domain, get one on a well-known TLD (e.g. .com, .org or your own country code). If you get a gTLD that's not well-known, there are some endpoints that will block you because your email is "not valid".
Things like .rocks, .guru, .club, and all those other recent gold-rush gTLDs have been a disaster from the spam standpoint*. It doesn't help that some registrars are complicit via allowing massive bulk name purchases, so I see zillions of somebody@{random-word-1}{random-word-2}.goldrush addresses, all with valid DKIM/DMARC.
* Not to mention phishing. Is that link going to foobank dot com or foobank dot club?
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you get your own domain, get one on a well-known TLD (e.g. .com, .org or your own country code). If you get a gTLD that's not well-known, there are some endpoints that will block you because your email is "not valid".
Is .dev or .io considered a well-known gTLD by now? I’m in process of setting up email for my .dev domain.
Avoid .io; it’s not reliable and raises ethical questions:
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20171113150544/https://getstream...
Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
#199Is there really no way for a user to get in touch with a human agent? I read that Google automates the flagging and disabling of accounts but given how many people have their livelihood linked to these accounts, Google must have done something. It makes me scared how deep I have dived into the Google ecosystem. Time and time again I think about transitioning to someplace else but don’t know how to. It seems too daunt…
Nope. My Adsense account was banned almost 9 years ago. I followed their appeals process, gave all the information required, and received automated responses every time. I repeatedly appealed over the last 9 years, receiving the automated rejections every time, until finally a few weeks ago for some reason they approved the appeal and my account was reinstated :shrugs:
So a happy ending!
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