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My child lost her firstname.lastname gmail/Google account for life for a one-time childish mistake. So, I guess you are mistaken.
by natch 10y ago
My child lost her firstname.lastname gmail/Google account for life for a one-time childish mistake. So, I guess you are mistaken.
- PuffinBlue 10y agoAnd what was this one-time childish mistake that lead to losing the account?
- adamking 10y agoI'm curious as well. There's little a child, let alone an adult, could that would result in a permaban.
- adamking 10y agodo
- CamperBob2 10y agoSee the story the other day, where someone discovered the hard way what happens if you registered your PayPal account before you turned 18.
- IsmaOlvey 10y agoThe story, for anyone else wondering what was referred to: https://hackernoon.com/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-online-examples-of-customer-service-42f3c13f6cd0 https://hackernoon.com/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-onli...
- s73ver 10y agoSpammed AdSense with fraudulent clicks, and impersonated other apps in the Play Store.
- natch 10y agoShe saw a chain email (i.e. forward this to 10 people!) and decided it would be fun to make up her own. Apparently it was successful enough to get somebody's attention. Edit: To be clear, I would never blame them for wanting to stop a cascading explosion of emails. But I also wouldn't say it's impossible for a child to get an account banned.
- joshmn 10y agoMakes for a good story at least. Can't blame a kid for being curious on how stuff works.
- tn135 10y agoAnd why is that a problem ? Does it violate Google's policies in any way ?
- prawn 10y agoIt's a problem because Google banned the account. Doesn't matter if it's unclear about policy violation given they're the ones making the decision and providing limited opportunities for recourse.
- tn135 10y agoYeah I understood that part. I was only wondering if there is an explicit policy about sending chain emails.
- prawn 10y agoSorry, should've made it clear that I was making a separate point - that it doesn't matter either way when someone else can make a decision and limit follow up. It's long been a frustration for many with Google services.
- natch 10y agoFrom the TOS at the time: "5.4 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services)."
- Fiahil 10y agoGoogle is notoriously famous for their automated and permanent /kickban. It's literally the first law when using their products : "Don't trust them and never put important stuff in one single place". It doesn't surprise me that your child could trigger accidentally one of those super ban. At least it's not that bad, they could have banned your account too.
- thmorriss 10y agoLiterally the first law?
- Baeocystin 10y agoYeah? I mean, I use Google products all the time. But I have multiple accounts ready to go, and everything important backed up offline, because I work in IT, and I've dealt with too many horror stories. Google products work wonderfully until they don't, and the trigger to account loss may be a complete accident. And there is virtually no recourse when it does. Their systems are not as foolproof as people seem to think. I've gotten other people's pictures in my photostream, and other people's appointments in my calendar. I'm sure it goes the other way, too, and that is something that 100% should be on your mind whenever you use their services.