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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by hogu on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:35PM (#19125124)
I was also suspended.

- 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.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by sheeshkebab on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:42PM (#19125155)
no gsuite is probably key - I'm thinking of terminating all my gsuite accounts simply due to no desire of having my business basically be terminated due to some stupid algorithms maintained by google's idiots.
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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by w8rbt on Saturday February 09, 2019 @06:13PM (#19125317)
Keep G Suite, but buy your own domain (whatever.com) so you are in total control. If they ban you, just change DNS records to point to zoho or some other provider.
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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by simple_phrases on Saturday February 09, 2019 @06:32PM (#19125405)
> Keep G Suite

Why, so Google can pull the rug out from under me at the least opportune moment?

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by Kocrachon on Saturday February 09, 2019 @09:53PM (#19126120)
And lose all the emails and Google docs associated
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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by tedivm on Saturday February 09, 2019 @07:24PM (#19125628)
This also requires maintaining decent backups of the gsuite emails, calendars, contacts, and drives that people are using.
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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by lunchables on Sunday February 10, 2019 @08:58AM (#19127768)
Which is good practice anyway, just in case of an outage, or someone hacking your account, or whatever.

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.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by tinus_hn on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:28AM (#19127380)
On the plus side, they are helping you remove your dependencies on Google! If you ever decide you’re done with them it’ll be easier to cut them out of your life.
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