It is well known that if Google bans your account it will ban any "related" account and that includes your immediate family including your spouse, parents, children and your official job/startup.
I never understood this bizarre behaviour from Google. My colleagues got a taste of it when they shared their laptop and one of them had a banned account.
It was a defence project and the work computers were not allowed to have internet. One common computer away from work area and in a different lan was a designated internet computer. Unfortunately one dev with a banned account set a chain reaction of getting everyone else banned.
> It is well known that if Google bans your account it will ban any "related" account and that includes your immediate family including your spouse, parents, children and your official job/startup.
I find this behavior terrifying. Destroying people's accounts just for having the same blood as someone deemed ban-able.
Did their accounts end up permanently banned or could they recover them? Seems like something that could actually be abused if not. A weaponized banned Google account on a laptop. A laptop with cooties. The seven generations punishment.
> Did their accounts end up permanently banned or could they recover them?
How could they recover them? The only support Google offers for situations like this is write a sob story on social media, and hope it gets enough traction that a Google employee intervenes.
I'm no longer doing android development, thankfully (never again!) -- I don't relish the thought of having to ask house guests if they or anyone they know have ever been banned from Google. I don't understand how Google can staff up their Play store with engineers given this keeps happening.
They are weaponised already unfortunately. There are HN stories of competitors reporting devs/apps and them getting irrevocably banned without a platform to complain on/to. I used to like/defend Google, but they keep disappointing.
I even have Google-anxiety and am considering moving everything away before it becomes too late
I never understood this bizarre behaviour from Google. My colleagues got a taste of it when they shared their laptop and one of them had a banned account.
It was a defence project and the work computers were not allowed to have internet. One common computer away from work area and in a different lan was a designated internet computer. Unfortunately one dev with a banned account set a chain reaction of getting everyone else banned.