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Tangential at best but this is why I literally created a new user ID yesterday solely for Google's Stadia. They have a tendency to lower the ban hammer with li
by technofiend 7y ago
Tangential at best but this is why I literally created a new user ID yesterday solely for Google's Stadia. They have a tendency to lower the ban hammer with little discretion and I'm quite sure sooner or later griefers will figure out how to allege cheating complaints that result in account closure. I'd rather not lose my real Google account to someone's online indigestion.
- reaperducer 7y agothis is why I literally created a new user ID yesterday solely for Google's Stadia Not enough. Google's ban hammer can hit not only an allegedly infringing account, but also any account it suspects is even related to that account. Share an IP address? Log in from the same place regularly? Machine has cookies for both? It's all gone.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoScary. Presumably you have some real world examples of this?
- reaperducer 7y agoI haven't experienced it personally because I limit my exposure to Google as much as I can. But it's been discussed on HN a number of times.
- technofiend 7y agoMeh. My google account is really just getting forwarded e-mails from another provider. If they banned every account I own I'd have to switch to Apple and restore my contacts from backup I use to feed my voip provider and photos from backblaze. It would be annoying but not devastating. However you can bet I'd raise holy hell on social media to try and undo it since that seems excessive.