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I’m so sorry this happened to you. Can you show us the site?
The site is https://nextails.com/ I just ran ads with headlines like Nextjs + TailwindCSS Landing Pages Apparently somehow I ran afoul of their Circumventing Systems policy. I don't know how this qualifies and when I appealed they came back saying the same thing.
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Re: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
#152Can someone explain to my why Google isn't being drowned in a torrent of lawsuits? We are getting stories like this on a weekly basis now. Google is clearly causing measurable harm to your company and you. And apparently to thousands before you. Considering how much money patent trolls manage to extract from Big Tech with considerably weaker cases, how is it that everybody is treating Google like a fragile grandmothe…
It's unlikely that any claimant would be able to show a contractual provision that enables them to claim for damages against Google (thus allowing them to sue in contract), so a cause of action for tort would be the usual way to sue Google - except unless Google makes you suffer some form of physical harm or damages your property, you're unlikely to be able to recover any damages for your website suffering these consequences, in the UK at least. I understand US law may be quite different.
There's a testable argument to be made about the requirement for "damage" to your property (the website) being inflicted by the certificate warning, but policy arguments on the matter of "ripple effect" liability makes it seem likely the courts would hold that Google isn't liable.
Also Google is probably far better placed to weather lawsuits than most ordinary people; they can probably afford to induce the other party to settle out of court, and presumably the relevant monopoly and abuse of market position laws only allow a regulator to take legal action (the ordinary consumer being restricted to contract and tort lawsuits).
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My very-much-not-a-lawyer understanding is that their legal obligations and liabilities are minimal on account of Gmail being offered free of charge. Anyone know if that's true?
Its the terms of service users agreed to. Prices not relevant
At least here in the UK, EULAs that say You have no recourse if we completely fail to deliver are generally disregarded in court, as it should be.
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Not useful for your current case, but I recommend using a password manager to fill random phrases for security questions. That way they’re easy to read out over the phone to CS reps, but are more secure than literal answers, which can often be derived from publicly available info.
Is there a password manager you recommend? I've never used one. Ty!
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They only show the last two digits of the number. And I've only ever had two phone numbers in my life, and neither of them end with those digits.
Plus it is always a bad idea to give someone a code sent to your number. 99% of the time someone is trying to hack you and a necessary step is obtaining that code.
Re: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
#156Quick notes: Site owner has not confirmed they screened all uploaded content for malware - this is a major issue these days and google and others will flag you if you host viruses and pump out malware. And no - you cannot sue google to force them to allow users to be infected. It’s not clear that all customer content is hosted on a separate domain, and each customer on a separate sub domain . Your reputation will be…
> We never allow anything other than video and image files either. I would have thought this would be an excellent way to not host malware.
Re: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
The site is https://nextails.com/ I just ran ads with headlines like Nextjs + TailwindCSS Landing Pages Apparently somehow I ran afoul of their Circumventing Systems policy. I don't know how this qualifies and when I appealed they came back saying the same thing.
I hope this attracts attention from someone who knows more than I do, but I can’t see anything wrong with that. The arbitrary and immense power FAANG wields is fucking terrifying.
Re: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
The site is https://nextails.com/ I just ran ads with headlines like Nextjs + TailwindCSS Landing Pages Apparently somehow I ran afoul of their Circumventing Systems policy. I don't know how this qualifies and when I appealed they came back saying the same thing.
I hope this attracts attention from someone who knows more than I do, but I can’t see anything wrong with that. The arbitrary and immense power FAANG wields is fucking terrifying.
Re: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
#159Can someone explain to my why Google isn't being drowned in a torrent of lawsuits? We are getting stories like this on a weekly basis now. Google is clearly causing measurable harm to your company and you. And apparently to thousands before you. Considering how much money patent trolls manage to extract from Big Tech with considerably weaker cases, how is it that everybody is treating Google like a fragile grandmothe…
In the UK at least, these consequences (website going offline / certificate warning / unsearchable in the search engine) would likely be deemed "pure economic loss" following Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd v Martin & Co (Contractors) Ltd [1973] QB 27 and Murphy v Brentwood District Council [1991] 1 AC 398 where the Court of Appeal and House of Lords respectively held that unless some sort of physical harm was suffered to…
Re: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site
#160Anyone who thinks this is the functioning of a "normal" internet is mistaken. This is a symptom of a decades-in-the-making problem. It strongly appears those in charge of legislation are not technically minded and have no idea "how" the internet works. Or they do and they have data-sharing agreements with all the 'big tech' software and are okay to "appear" to legislate but cannot actually change anything substantial…
I think if FAANG didn’t already control so much of our communications you might see such advocacy groups, but as it is...
Do you want to be the face of a campaign that will piss off FAANG?