Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

Post by input_sh » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 10:54 AM UTC

blntechie wrote: post #185

krageon wrote: post #177

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If you get your own domain, get one on a well-known TLD (e.g. .com, .org or your own country code). If you get a gTLD that's not well-known, there are some endpoints that will block you because your email is "not valid".

Is .dev or .io considered a well-known gTLD by now? I’m in process of setting up email for my .dev domain.

Post by eternalban » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 10:57 AM UTC

theshrike79 wrote: post #167

jug wrote: post #55

This makes me anxious about my long time Gmail address. Back then I got it just because it and Google was cool, and their services had a good reputation. It was a different Google back then. If they had launched it this year I would never have got one because chances are it would have been cancelled by 2025. Gmail is really the only valuable thing that actually ties my life to Google. And it's not that hard to replac…

Start the process of getting out right now. Get an email address that you own, on a domain you control. Switch to a provider that takes your money for whom you are the customer - not the product. I did this with Fastmail and Iki.fi, a Finnish non-profit[1], who have been selling people "permanent" email addresses since 1995. [1] http://www.iki.fi/

Post by Hamuko » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 10:57 AM UTC

krageon wrote: post #177

theshrike79 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start the process of getting out right now. Get an email address that you own, on a domain you control. Switch to a provider that takes your money for whom you are the customer - not the product. I did this with Fastmail and Iki.fi, a Finnish non-profit[1], who have been selling people "permanent" email addresses since 1995. [1] http://www.iki.fi/

If you get your own domain, get one on a well-known TLD (e.g. .com, .org or your own country code). If you get a gTLD that's not well-known, there are some endpoints that will block you because your email is "not valid".

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 10:57 AM UTC

p410n3 wrote: post #9

This happens again and again. I have had that happen to my twitter account. I see this regulary on HN. My suspicion is that this is mostly happening because platforms that big like google or twitter rely very heavily on machine learning and other AI related technology to ban people. Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high. So I get why t…

Post by utucuro » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 10:59 AM UTC

HenryBemis wrote: post #203

WA wrote: post #64

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Shows the bias in machine learning. One simple parameter isn't added and the whole model is bullshit. One parameter would be: Amount of money this customer has spend on our products. Another would be: Active time since signup. I'm pretty sure if "money spend > 0" is actually a legitimate threshold to remove a lot of spam, although not all. "money spend > 200" might to the trick though.

This can be gamed. There are so many stolen credit card numbers and/or payments using Apple/Google pre-paid cards out there, so it's not difficult to automatically build accounts with this kind of 'reputation'. Unfortunately the best way to do KYC is (still) human intervention (and use of data).