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The article was complaining abut AI, yet written by AI
I use a kitchen knife to prepare dinner, and yet I am still appalled when someone uses a knife to stab someone. This is not hypocritical. The article is partly about a _misuse_ of AI, and partly about just how bad the system around accounts and appeals is in general.
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I'm surprised you were able to get a person to address your issue.
I suspect the story is entirely made up, based on that detail alone.
... why?
Google has a zillion employees and the story didn't even end altruistically on their side, what the fuck would the point of fictionalizing this encounter be? typing practice?
I get that it's kind of supposed to be an advanced jab at google "The world will end before you speak to a human", but cast the shade on the perpetrators rather than saying that the victimized side is lying.
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It's also possible/likely they're using discrimination. It's cheaper to avoid lawsuits and PR disasters by ensuring they respond faster to minority customers. That and/or Vietnamese customers tend to have higher spend/conversion, so Google gives them better service. Or her husband's Google account had some kind of score based on previous spend/statistical probability that determined he deserved better service. I thin…
We're in Vietnam. I'm the minority here, as a European.
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The account is already banned.
The Youtube account is banned. Google can escalate things and widen the net to ban anything and everything you have in the Google ecosystem, like a Gmail account. You can see here [0] that OP still has access to the Gmail account. [0] https://pocketables.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image-4-1...
Still, you’re not going to let Google continue charging you for nothing and still keep your email with them.
Anyone who has anything like this happen to them is moving off Google products.
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I'm surprised you were able to get a person to address your issue.
I suspect the story is entirely made up, based on that detail alone.
Otherwise consider that you're fucking wrong and have little understanding of how communication with Google works?
Also go through my history and find the other times I have sharesd this same story. Do I get paid for each time?
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I'm surprised you were able to get a person to address your issue.
I thought exactly the same! My question: How/Why were they able to speak to a human (or maybe chat/email)?
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I suspect the story is entirely made up, based on that detail alone.
>I suspect the story is entirely made up, based on that detail alone. ... why? Google has a zillion employees and the story didn't even end altruistically on their side, what the fuck would the point of fictionalizing this encounter be? typing practice? I get that it's kind of supposed to be an advanced jab at google "The world will end before you speak to a human", but cast the shade on the perpetrators rather than…
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Had similar experience. My best guess is that the account never went through the various age verification flows (since it was that old, it predated all that) and ended up being marked for deletion- I suspect that they had a bug (legal or in code) that prevented warning emails to get out. I got lucky to detect it early, since they disabled AI a few weeks before account deletion.
My gmail account still has the "First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail." mail in it from June 2004. The account itself is over 21 years old. I wonder if I'll get forced to age verify myself any time?
Easy fix, wait for the next billing, contact the bank explaining what happened, and block that and future debits. At least in Australia, this shouldn't be a problem.
This is not an easy fix. Charge backs will lead to life-time permanent bans. Which means you're now forced to buy an iPhone in order to pass store attestation for essential applications like banking apps, government ID, age verification, etc.
with all the ai hype buzzing around, i'm too paranoid to link it to a bank account
these people this money grows on trees, and i suppose if you're google it does >.>