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 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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