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Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

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Post by quantummkv »

cocochanel wrote: post #140
warent wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 use Zoho with my own domains. Haven't had any issues so far.

Recommend Zoho as well. Their web client is insanely fast and filled with all sorts of power user features. The gmail client doesn't even compare with how slow it is.

Re: Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

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Post by pfortuny »

p410n3 wrote: post #9

This 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…

And that is why "innocent until proved guilty" is such an important tenet of Western justice.

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Post by londons_explore »

georgebarnett wrote: post #243
londons_explore wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People at Google really do want to fix this... But it's a minefield of: * Legal stuff (eg. some algorithm detected child porn in his account, is an employee legally allowed to look at it to confirm the algorithm was correct? no.) * Internal Politics (eg. one team has found this account DoSing their service, while the account is perfectly normal in all other ways, but due to Googles systems being so complex a single-s…

Many other companies of similar size manage to provide customer service just fine. This is a solved problem - you just have to be willing to realise that magic AI sprinkles aren’t the answer. As for cost - this continual stream of screwups is costing them a ridiculous amount of goodwill and future business. It’s probably the best ad for AWS there is.

I suspect they don't have the combination of strict privacy so employees can't look into the account, massive spam potential, and billions of users...

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Post by Tom4hawk »

dandare wrote: post #173

I am not fan of regulation, but apparently not every abuse of the market can be solved by courts in a practical way. Like in this case, a mere mortal can not possibly sue Google. I can imagine the EU will step in soon. There are multiple different aspects of being locked out of a "free" service provider like Google: - Losing your email addresses - even if it was provided for free, will cause an immense harm. Email ad…

How do you want to transfer your apps from Google Store? Is there any other service with those apps?

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Post by dannyw »

wraptile wrote: post #244
jug wrote: post #55

This 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…

> Gmail is really the only valuable thing that actually ties my life to Google For me it's google photos. While there are lot of great gmail alternatives these days there's still nothing like google photos unfortunately, is there?

iCloud.

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Post by lima »

amirhirsch wrote: post #68
euph0ria wrote: post #17

The company I work for has banned the use of Google Cloud due to how they treat their Play Store developers, in particular that there never seems to be any human being that you can talk to and find out what you need to do to fix the situation. We do not want the same to occur to our servers or if there is an overflow from Play Store ban to GCP etc.

Can you imagine any serious new project starting on Google Cloud with their lack of human support? I wonder if Google knows this is why they will never compete with Azure or AWS.

Human support for Google Cloud has been very good, even on a small account.

Now if only they could figure it out for consumer accounts... Those are customers as well and deserve to be treated as such.

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Post by the-smug-one »

insensible wrote: post #102
warent wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 have done exactly this with Fastmail and my own domain, and the experience was wonderful, as in "why didn't I do this years ago".

Fastmail is Australia based, wouldn't that pose a risk with regards to backdoors?

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Post by mmc4444 »

izacus wrote: post #137
rochak wrote: post #2

Is 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…

A few months ago I've seen a Googler pissed on Twitter about how their spouses GMail account got suspended and he got completely stonewalled internally as well. It seems that even Googlers themselves cannot get any human contact for account support. (Sadly I can't find that Twitter thread anymore.) EDIT: Found it - https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1315749803041619981

How do you manage to get totally locked out of your account though: if I have backup codes, a backup email address, the backup code for my 2FA app... surely I am protected from this, right? Assuming my account doesn't get hacked and turned into a spambot.

I am sitting here thinking of what would happen if my Gmail account got blocked. The disruption it would cause to me is enormous.

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