Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
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Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
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Re: Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
#2If there's a good alternative never use Google anything. The sole fact that there is no appeal system to account shutdowns and the way they just kill services at random should be enough reason for anyone.
Re: Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
#3If there's a good alternative never use Google anything. The sole fact that there is no appeal system to account shutdowns and the way they just kill services at random should be enough reason for anyone.
It’s definitely not going to help the regulatory scrutiny from various governments.
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#4If there's a good alternative never use Google anything. The sole fact that there is no appeal system to account shutdowns and the way they just kill services at random should be enough reason for anyone.
Stories like this always scare me because they remind me that all of my domain names are on Google domains, including the one I use for my work email address.
I gotta migrate out one of these days.
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#5So Google can manage hundreds of feature/experiment flags on accounts to control which shade of blue you see in an A/B test, but silo-ing which products an account has access to just isn't possible?
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#6If there's a good alternative never use Google anything. The sole fact that there is no appeal system to account shutdowns and the way they just kill services at random should be enough reason for anyone.
Stories like this always scare me because they remind me that all of my domain names are on Google domains, including the one I use for my work email address. I gotta migrate out one of these days.
Epik and Namecheap are pretty good imo. Definitely don't use GoDaddy.
EDIT: One can find several instances where users search domain names on GoDaddy and they are available at regular price but when they try to place the order, the domain is no longer available and must be bought at a premium price.
Re: Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
#7I'd extend this even further: never use a single account for more than one purpose. Create a separate account at the same company for the other purpose. Some examples:
- Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
- Nothing tied to your consumer accounts should be used for anything business related.
- Your Amazon shopping account and your AWS account should definitely not be the same account.
- Don't use services where you're required to mix accounts like this.
Some examples:
- If the issue in this thread is actually an automatic ban, account siloing very likely would have avoided the issue. ([edit] likely, it would not have been possible to silo accounts in this case, as a child comment points out)
- Facebook apparently lacks the willingness to block an account from Marketplace, but they will block an account from all Facebook properties.
- Paypal has banned businesses because the account was created years ago by someone who at the time the account was created was 17.
The point of this isn't that it's impossible to connect the dots that you are the same person. The point is to make it difficult for an automated system to deal too much damage to you, and make it difficult for someone looking at a single account's history from accumulating too many "strikes" against that account.
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#8Google needs a general support line that doesn’t involve a Medium post making the HN front page
Re: Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
#9I'd say - use any platform for what it's good at. Extract value from platform.
Benefit from it, monetise it, let it help you to gather users or following.
But NEVER rely on any propriately platform for your business. You're NOT in control.
Make sure you have a contingency plan. Have backup (whatever it is for your business).
Make sure you have direct, alternative contacts with your users if platform goes nuts.
Re: Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads
#10So Google can manage hundreds of feature/experiment flags on accounts to control which shade of blue you see in an A/B test, but silo-ing which products an account has access to just isn't possible?
I think it's more like they don't want to do it. If they consider someone a "fraud", why allow this "bad actor" to be still in the system? It's like "if someone steals, put them in the jail altogether, instead of just ban him from grocery stores".