Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by genuine_smiles on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:08AM (#26965472)

> - Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

I wouldn’t do this with Facebook. Creating a second account is against Facebook policy, and they may ban both accounts.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by inopinatus on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:34AM (#26966382)

Facebook's demand is this brain-damaged garbage:

If you want to represent your business, organisation, brand or product on Facebook, you can use your personal account to create and manage a Page.

We have a diametrically conflicting policy, by which personal accounts absolutely may not be used to manage company resources, for exactly the aforementioned reasons of minimising blast radius; so, we basically gave up on Facebook.

The double standard is evident: can you imagine any FAANG security team allowing a major corporate communications channel to be owned by a personal account? Answer: no; because doing something that fucking stupid would be a disciplinary offence.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by bennyp101 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:55AM (#26966510)

Yep, I wanted to set up a Facebook page for my company, but as I don't want a personal Facebook account, I figured it wasn't worth it because it would end up being fake info, and they could then just shut it down.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by rexf on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:41AM (#26965668)

It seems like a risk with Google too. It's common to be logged into Google/Gmail with multiple Google accounts. Even with separate Google accounts, Google can tell they are related and could potentially ban them too.

A quick web search came up with Google's "associated account ban":

> "Associated account ban" means not just explicit account linkages, but also implicit ones, where a wife can be banned for the misbehavior of her husband

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ckoej1/googles_...

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by malka on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:23AM (#26967424)

It is funny how Google behaves like the worst dictatorship on the planet. Guilt by association is such a bunch of crap.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by pudmaidai on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:36AM (#26967512)

I just can’t wait for my personal Google accounts as well as several others business accounts I access regularly to suddenly be blocked all at once.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by ryandrake on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:19AM (#26965550)

Legit question: is there any other service/company on earth that bans you for having multiple accounts? This seems like an insanely restrictive policy. One of the defining characteristics of internet communication is that you can have a “work persona” and a “home persona” and maybe another one for your hobbies, another one for your porn browsing and gambling, another one for your aunts and uncles. To deny this basic, universal concept is backwards and frankly shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by coliveira on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:37AM (#26966004)

Internet companies have decided to deny this right the moment they figured out that your identity is valuable. Nowadays Google and FB, among others, will punish you if you use different online identities without their knowledge.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by matkoniecz on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:08AM (#26966198)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry

It is also a common policy on many forums.

And while I love complaining about policies and behavior of FB, Google, Amazon etc, this one makes sense.

Almost always you ban person, not account - so standard is to allow one account or to require accounts to be clearly linked (for example, a separate bot account that is clearly declared).

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by panic on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:04AM (#26968844)

Wikipedia's policy doesn't say you can't have multiple accounts, just that you can't misuse them.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by dasyatidprime on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:42AM (#26966037)

GitHub disallows multiple free accounts in the TOS, meaning identity separation seemingly implies a continuous subscription cost forever. I'm not aware of any high-profile enforcement, but it's there.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by numpad0 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:57AM (#26966520)

Microsoft reportedly has internal one identity policy, Facebook is notorious for forcing people to expose, etc.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by PeterisP on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:22AM (#26967409)

It would be so ridiculous for Microsoft to have a one identity policy because Microsoft software accounts are generally provided by employers and tied to them, I have 4 MS identities (personal, two companies and university) and MS does not provide an option to use a single identity for that.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by CGamesPlay on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:20AM (#26965556)

You can create Page accounts directly, which are not "people", so they aren't subject to that policy. They also do not have access to the same features, however.

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Re:Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clic... by ipaddr on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:51AM (#26966098)

Every older person I know does this because some games require to be unlocked at different stages by a friend.

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