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My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Every subdivision of Google needs to be broken up, advertising and search especially. Too much in our economy is at stake.

Why would a smaller company be any more responsive to issues like this? This seems like a technological problem rather than a political one.

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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Every subdivision of Google needs to be broken up, advertising and search especially. Too much in our economy is at stake.

I consider myself anti-monopolist but lately I've been thinking...wouldn't breaking up American big tech companies put the US in a worse position to compete against Chinese tech companies?

Re: My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero

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I’ve had similar experiences with other google products:

My mom forgot her gmail password and no longer had the same mobile number for a reset, the secondary reset option was set to my email but would not send a reset despite this. We had a live session via thunderbird but there were no channels of support. Luckily we were able to register her old mobile number to achieve a password reset, thanks to a helpful phone provider and NOT google.

My mailserver is marked as spam by gmail, a helpful HN commentor pointed out it may be my lack of ipv6 which appears to be the cause. I have no idea why ipv6 would indicate that I’m not a spammer, I can’t ask google because they don’t have a support line.

I understand others have far more expensive (read: >1m$) problems with google specifically, and I know I’m not alone here.

I just hope that by continually airing grievances with lack of (useful) customer service by major providers, they end up caving and investing in customer support.

Until then, fuck you google.

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