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I was also suspended. - Having friends inside google does not help (I suppose at some level they can, but L5/L6 engineers aren't enough) - Creating a new acco

by hogu 8y ago

I was also suspended. - Having friends inside google does not help (I suppose at some level they can, but L5/L6 engineers aren't enough) - Creating a new account with a different credit card does not help. Subsequent accounts they can link back to you will also be banned - I haven't found a solution yet, except for keeping all of my new projects outside of google (no google analytics, no google search console (which obviously still allows your site to be indexed) no gsuite. That way if I never need google advertising, a co founder can pick it up and google has no way to trace the company back to me.

sheeshkebab 8y ago
no gsuite is probably key - I'm thinking of terminating all my gsuite accounts simply due to no desire of having my business basically be terminated due to some stupid algorithms maintained by google's idiots.
- w8rbt 8y ago
  Keep G Suite, but buy your own domain (whatever.com) so you are in total control. If they ban you, just change DNS records to point to zoho or some other provider.
  - simple_phrases 8y ago
    > Keep G Suite Why, so Google can pull the rug out from under me at the least opportune moment?
    - Kocrachon 8y ago
      And lose all the emails and Google docs associated
  - tedivm 8y ago
    This also requires maintaining decent backups of the gsuite emails, calendars, contacts, and drives that people are using.
    - lunchables 8y ago
      Which is good practice anyway, just in case of an outage, or someone hacking your account, or whatever. But I agree, too risky. Just stay away from Google. Cons outweigh the pros, for me personally. The only thing I used it for was sheets, docs and gmail. LibreOffice is more than adequate for me, and far better than the Google alternatives.
tinus_hn 8y ago
On the plus side, they are helping you remove your dependencies on Google! If you ever decide you’re done with them it’ll be easier to cut them out of your life.

by hogu 8y ago

sheeshkebab 8y ago

no gsuite is probably key - I'm thinking of terminating all my gsuite accounts simply due to no desire of having my business basically be terminated due to some stupid algorithms maintained by google's idiots.

w8rbt 8y ago
Keep G Suite, but buy your own domain (whatever.com) so you are in total control. If they ban you, just change DNS records to point to zoho or some other provider.
- simple_phrases 8y ago
  > Keep G Suite Why, so Google can pull the rug out from under me at the least opportune moment?
  - Kocrachon 8y ago
    And lose all the emails and Google docs associated
- tedivm 8y ago
  This also requires maintaining decent backups of the gsuite emails, calendars, contacts, and drives that people are using.
  - lunchables 8y ago
    Which is good practice anyway, just in case of an outage, or someone hacking your account, or whatever. But I agree, too risky. Just stay away from Google. Cons outweigh the pros, for me personally. The only thing I used it for was sheets, docs and gmail. LibreOffice is more than adequate for me, and far better than the Google alternatives.

tinus_hn 8y ago

On the plus side, they are helping you remove your dependencies on Google! If you ever decide you’re done with them it’ll be easier to cut them out of your life.