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If you succeed in getting your account back you will only deepen your dependence on this silent, unaccountable leviathan. Do yourself the favor of learning from

If you succeed in getting your account back you will only deepen your dependence on this silent, unaccountable leviathan. Do yourself the favor of learning from this experience. Walk away from Google services and count your loss as cheap tuition. Bend your path toward free and open systems instead. Where you can't find them, develop them.

quuquuquu 9y ago
While I generally agree with your statement, we all rely on each other's software to some degree, as it isn't possible for everyone to custom build everything that isnt yet open source. There should be some impetus for the largest and most profitable corporations to not be /egregiously/ evil.
- wai1234 9y ago
  Google makes its money on search+adwords. Everything else they do is a hobby, and it shows. Not necessarily evil, but sloppy produces the same bad result.
  - ac29 9y ago
    Google makes single-digit billions in revenue from the Android App Store. While not explicitly broken out, the info is in their annual report [0], where "other revenues" are a bit over 10B USD (>10% of total revenue): "Google other revenues consist primarily of revenues and sales from: • Apps, in-app purchases, and digital content in the Google Play store; • Hardware; • Licensing-related revenue; and • Service fees received for our Google Cloud offerings." As an aside, the risks section is surprisingly interesting and honest. A recommended read. [0] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2016_google_annual_report.pdf https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2016_google_annual_report.pdf
- xbmcuser 9y ago
  They are not being evil they are just using automation to cut costs that ai in reality is not 100% ready yet. Now for google AI works 99.99% is okay but for the developer or user that falls in the 0.01% it destroys them. People are facing similar problems with Amazon, credit card companies and banks etc where automation helps bring down cost for the corporations but causing problems for 0.01% which is sadly an accpetable cost to corporations.
unlmtd1 9y ago
You're absolutely right. This is a great experience for him, as he now should clearly see what the problem is. Our digital identities are not ours. The OP can make more, a lot more money developing and servicing decentralized identity/related-services than writing 'apps' for 'google play'. Google will be bankrupt within 3 years.
mosen 9y ago
You can't put an app on the Play Store without a Google Developer account. It's a big market to walk away from.
- flukus 9y ago
  You can always create a new account to publish apps, you can't get years of mail history back and you can't reset your password to other places once you've lost your email account.

quuquuquu 9y ago

While I generally agree with your statement, we all rely on each other's software to some degree, as it isn't possible for everyone to custom build everything that isnt yet open source. There should be some impetus for the largest and most profitable corporations to not be /egregiously/ evil.

wai1234 9y ago
Google makes its money on search+adwords. Everything else they do is a hobby, and it shows. Not necessarily evil, but sloppy produces the same bad result.
- ac29 9y ago
  Google makes single-digit billions in revenue from the Android App Store. While not explicitly broken out, the info is in their annual report [0], where "other revenues" are a bit over 10B USD (>10% of total revenue): "Google other revenues consist primarily of revenues and sales from: • Apps, in-app purchases, and digital content in the Google Play store; • Hardware; • Licensing-related revenue; and • Service fees received for our Google Cloud offerings." As an aside, the risks section is surprisingly interesting and honest. A recommended read. [0] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2016_google_annual_report.pdf https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2016_google_annual_report.pdf
xbmcuser 9y ago
They are not being evil they are just using automation to cut costs that ai in reality is not 100% ready yet. Now for google AI works 99.99% is okay but for the developer or user that falls in the 0.01% it destroys them. People are facing similar problems with Amazon, credit card companies and banks etc where automation helps bring down cost for the corporations but causing problems for 0.01% which is sadly an accpetable cost to corporations.

unlmtd1 9y ago

You're absolutely right. This is a great experience for him, as he now should clearly see what the problem is. Our digital identities are not ours. The OP can make more, a lot more money developing and servicing decentralized identity/related-services than writing 'apps' for 'google play'. Google will be bankrupt within 3 years.

mosen 9y ago

You can't put an app on the Play Store without a Google Developer account. It's a big market to walk away from.

flukus 9y ago
You can always create a new account to publish apps, you can't get years of mail history back and you can't reset your password to other places once you've lost your email account.