> We will (barely) survive
That a single company, in an unrelated market (ads), merely refusing to do business with you, can almost bankrupt you, means it's time for trust-busting. No single company should have such power.
Google just shut down our $1M business
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#12Only solution is to work with some of Google Ads Partners to run Ads on their behalf.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps between "normal" and "insta-perma-death" they should have some intermediate state, like "suspended-for-a-week" or "under-parole".
This is Google we're talking about, where you can only talk to robots.
They're big enough to owe society better customer support than robots. Bust 'em up (antitrust), this ain't what a healthy market looks like.
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#14OP seems like he'll hopefully be fine, but there's probably been many people like this who aren't fine.
I'm sure many people lose their jobs when an advertiser is banned for some dumb and false reason.
I'm sure some people fall into depression and commit suicide when their life's work is destroyed.
Can't the allegedly smartest company on Earth figure out some solution to help people in these extreme cases? Especially when it seems like an honest mistake with no bad intention?
PS: The most aggravating part is that this doesn't even prevent bad actors from using various techniques (identity theft or mass-spawning lots of companies in some lax foreign jurisdiction) to continue operating. This just screws over normal people who fall into some kafkaesque trap based on some rule they didn't know about.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be interesting to see a 2-line chatGPT summary of the same text.
Per ChatGPT summarizing the OP: The author received an email from Google stating that their account had been permanently suspended due to violating Google policies. The author had created a second Google Ads account as a risk management strategy to ensure their main account could continue running if it received a violation. However, they were unaware that creating multiple Google Ads accounts is against policy and wa…
Thanks. It wasn't as concise as I'd hoped for (I wanted about the same number of words as the parent comment) but it's a good summary.
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#16> We will (barely) survive That a single company, in an unrelated market (ads), merely refusing to do business with you, can almost bankrupt you, means it's time for trust-busting. No single company should have such power.
In this particular case, it seems easier said than done?
OP did put eggs in different basquet ( social medias ) but Google will be Google right? What would be the alternative.
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#17Google is useless the day ChatGPT include the links to website.
it already does tell people to go to sites, but it also lies about what's there. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt ChatGPT is a convincing fiction generator. Any facts it produces are purely coincidental. It's just really good at mansplaining and gaslighting people about things it knows nothing about.
Google just sends you to random websites where regular humans “mansplain and gaslight”?
ChatGPT is meant to mimic a human. Not be some god like arbtrar of truth. No such entity will ever exist.
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#18> We will (barely) survive That a single company, in an unrelated market (ads), merely refusing to do business with you, can almost bankrupt you, means it's time for trust-busting. No single company should have such power.
In this particular case, it seems easier said than done? OP did put eggs in different basquet ( social medias ) but Google will be Google right? What would be the alternative.
Anti-Trust Legislation.
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#19> We will (barely) survive That a single company, in an unrelated market (ads), merely refusing to do business with you, can almost bankrupt you, means it's time for trust-busting. No single company should have such power.
In this particular case, it seems easier said than done? OP did put eggs in different basquet ( social medias ) but Google will be Google right? What would be the alternative.
> What would be the alternative
That's the point, there is not alternative at the moment. Breaking up monopolies allows competition and an alternative provider when something like this happens.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Per ChatGPT summarizing the OP: The author received an email from Google stating that their account had been permanently suspended due to violating Google policies. The author had created a second Google Ads account as a risk management strategy to ensure their main account could continue running if it received a violation. However, they were unaware that creating multiple Google Ads accounts is against policy and wa…
Thanks. It wasn't as concise as I'd hoped for (I wanted about the same number of words as the parent comment) but it's a good summary.
Hmm. It misses the ironic 'thanks to HN advice' point, and more importantly it mixes up suspensions (if I understand correctly): the main ads account was not suspended again *. First the secondary ads account was suspended and only then the main ads account.
* This proves ChatGPT has no world model. If it had one, it would have been aware that undoing a Google suspension is impossible, therefore no account can be suspended twice. /j