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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by londons_explore on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:21AM (#20081098)
For any Google service with billing, always set up an entirely new account, in incognito mode, without using the same recovery phone number or email address.

That way Google won't ban your main account for non-payment.

It's the only way, especially considering Google cloud has no functionality to cap spending.

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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by dillonmckay on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:33AM (#20081835)
They will link the accounts by IP (and other fingerprinting), and you will get banned.
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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by londons_explore on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:22PM (#20084944)
My experience shows they do not.

For a ban, they need something concrete like using the same browser cookies, recovery email address or phone number.

IP isn't enough alone - you could be on shared WiFi.

Also, after account creation, you can log in from the same place without risk, or even use multi-login to log into both accounts at the same time.

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Re:Google Cloud Is Down by ozymandias12 on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:15AM (#20082008)
I’m so tired of this widespread tracking. You can’t even buy a burner phone anymore because there exists multiple fingerprinting methods.

Phone and desktop OSs should grow a pair and create a virtualization protocol to randomize tracking info to keep PII anonymous.

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