Re:How I lost access to my Google account today
by nextstep on Saturday April 14, 2012 @12:50AM
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For a post titled "How I Lost Access to my Google Account today" this article does a terrible job explaining how he lost access to his account. Was it just a totally random alorithmic error? The guy doesn't even have a theory about what he might of done?
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Re:How I lost access to my Google account today
by ehsanakhgari on Saturday April 14, 2012 @12:59AM
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This is the main thing which sucks about all this. I still don't have any clue on why this happened. The "how" is exactly how I explained it: I woke up this morning, and my account was disabled.
Re:How I lost access to my Google account today
by jedc on Saturday April 14, 2012 @05:40AM
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Here's a link that might be helpful:
Re:How I lost access to my Google account today
by jedc on Saturday April 14, 2012 @05:39AM
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Here's a link that might be helpful: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
Re:How I lost access to my Google account today
by krelian on Saturday April 14, 2012 @08:09AM
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>Was it just a totally random alorithmic error? The guy doesn't even have a theory about what he might of done?
I lost my adwords account one day, I wasn't even using it at the time. From what I gathered from support I lost it because a year and half earlier I had run two ads that were against the TOS. These ads were running for a total of 4 hours BTW and were of course approved by Google before going online.
I have no idea how they tune their algorithm so recklessly. I posted about it on HN before and someone brought up the idea (from experience) that the landing pages I used (I did not own the landing pages) were changed during those 18 months to something that is against the TOS and my account was flagged because I had used them in the past.