- Having friends inside google does not help (I suppose at some level they can, but L5/L6 engineers aren't enough)
- Creating a new account with a different credit card does not help. Subsequent accounts they can link back to you will also be banned
- I haven't found a solution yet, except for keeping all of my new projects outside of google (no google analytics, no google search console (which obviously still allows your site to be indexed) no gsuite. That way if I never need google advertising, a co founder can pick it up and google has no way to trace the company back to me.
Why, so Google can pull the rug out from under me at the least opportune moment?
But I agree, too risky. Just stay away from Google. Cons outweigh the pros, for me personally. The only thing I used it for was sheets, docs and gmail. LibreOffice is more than adequate for me, and far better than the Google alternatives.
This is how google has always operated, and it's one of the reasons why their near monopoly on advertising is horrible for everyone.
It was 10 years ago, and I have tried to make an appeal about it but always with the same response.
I was just exploring Google Places API to see if I could integrate it with a side project. The signup process claimed that it only needed a credit card to "prove that you're a financially capable human," which makes sense (and it also said that it would not charge your account until you gave it express permission), so I happily agreed. Despite this claim, Google apparently requires an active, chargeable card at all times, from account inception until you die. Failure to do so will result in terminating your account.
Whatever, let them terminate the account. Google's public favor is in a tailspin, and I can get the data I need from FourSquare at a fraction of the cost.
Back when our anti-monopoly legislation was first introduced, that wasn't the case - monopolies were busted just as well because they did something anti-competitive, even if that was presented as benefiting their customers (and even if it really did, short term).
the best way out of this is to educate users and start getting them to use other search products. we need more diversity of choice.
Probably not enough to matter, if you are only looking at the UK.
Everyone has the right to revoke consent at any time.
Additionally, why do you believe Google is a monopoly, and in which line of business?
He is still banned today
This really is where Google might be too big...
Since Google is such a force, and they don't have time to support or help people/companies lost in the algorithms, maybe competition is the only thing that can solve this because most companies are too small/medium for them to care.
Lots of these systems are probably well intentioned and risk averse by default, but in the end have too much influence on the market as a single point of failure.
Highly concentrated systems with single points of failure that fail on a large scale are bad, but even worse is highly concentrated systems that randomly get in an error loop but too small to correct, only here it is small/medium companies stuck in that algorithm purgatory vortex.
Of course, Google could do the same to ANY of us who end up depending on them. The only real solution is whatever makes you not significantly reliant on Google.
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item...
I'm not sure if it'll help for the author of the article, as Google's decision is clear, just their logic in unfair, and I assume they are talking about a business, not a personal, account.
One sometimes needs a lawyer to deal with the complexity of government laws. It seems like soon there will be a small thriving job market for "googlawyers" -- people who will earn they bread and butter by getting through the Google's bureaucracy.
PS. Jokes aside, it's a sad state of things.
The suspension was for "suspicious billing activity", tried appealing twice with the correct billing address, and was told the suspension is final (some automated email) both times.
They won't take my calls because the account is suspended, which leaves me not being able to advertise on the #1 service to do so.
It's completely unacceptable, especially for a business in their position. One tiny mistake leads you to a lifetime of suspension to a service vital to almost any business.