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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by nthypes on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:21PM (#48211854)
Meta is no different. I know a company that had their OAuth app on Meta rendered completely unusable just because one of their employees (a dev) had their personal Facebook account banned by Meta for no reason. They tried to escalate it multiple times but got nowhere, lol. Meta is even worse because accounts need to be 'personal'; if you have a Business Manager, the users added to it are all tied to their personal Meta/Facebook accounts. This is ludicrous.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by dylan604 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:58PM (#48212401)
To me, building any business with dependencies on Meta is just a bad business plan.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by nthypes on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:23PM (#48211884)
Meta and Google B2B are both horrible. Their ad account bans are constant, and they have no real escalation process to get help. These companies are monopolies that should treat businesses more seriously, especially in these situations.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by matsemann on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:42PM (#48212153)
Yeah, people loose their business because a kid is logged in on their iPad, gets their google account suspended, and google knows it's the same household as the parent, and everything gets shut down
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by subscribed on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:58PM (#48212398)
Can't find this now but google did at least once disable company's accounts after dev got their account suspended.

And as we know from the recent Gemini ban wave, you can get suspended just because.

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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by londons_explore on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:54PM (#48212326)
> google knows it's the same household as the parent,

Nearly all these linkages are due to people sharing recovery email addresses and phone numbers. Don't do that.

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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by dylan604 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:00PM (#48212426)
Are you honestly saying that a kid should not use their parent's email address as a recovery option? Seems like that would be the natural way to do it.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by true_religion on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:27PM (#48212808)
I don’t know about you, but I have a family account that we use as an email recovery for kids.

Adults have multiple emails so they won’t have to share it.

If something takes out the family email account, that’s fine. The only thing going there regularly are school notices, contractor receipts and recovery emails.

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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by matsemann on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:22AM (#48218214)
Point is that if one account gets suspended, all your accounts might. Your kids', the family account, your separate one that you use for gcp billing etc
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by MrDarcy on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:04PM (#48213338)
It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by genxy on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:44PM (#48212180)
Everyone needs a defensible root of trust, this goes all the way down to the registrar you use for your domain.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by skullone on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:51PM (#48212286)
The is in context of B2B, which meta has a huge ecosystem and often rips away a companies revenue for hidden reasons
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by budoso on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:29PM (#48212846)
Crazy considering this was their primary argument against the App Store's revenue share model. Not that they're wrong, but you'd think they would at least be consistent.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by lotsoweiners on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:29PM (#48211982)
Seems relevant to me as it is still a service that their company relied on.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by Kiro on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:56PM (#48212362)
Sure you're not misreading Metal?
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by simonw on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:52PM (#48212296)
They're a popular SSO provider.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by skywhopper on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:17PM (#48212635)
A huge number of small businesses have no Internet presence beyond their Facebook and Insta pages, so … yes they are extremely relevant to a discussion about the risk to small business of flaky hyperscalers.
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