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Madness, if you get blocked by aws in one of their accounts. Wave good by to all the other accounts

goforbg 5y ago
Exactly. I don't want this for the exact same reason.
anilakar 5y ago
It's also possible to get your personal GMail account banned after someone at your company breaks Google ToS: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_getting_google_to_ban_our_entire_company/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin... For the few Google products we use at work, like Calendar, we make sure that people do not register with their existing personal accounts but use their work email address.
- bbarnett 5y ago
  Isn't having more than one Gmail account a violation too?
  - sokoloff 5y ago
    I don’t think so. We have a family gmail account (mostly for a shared calendar) and Google has explicit ways to use more than one account. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE....
  - nl 5y ago
    It's not a violation to have more than one Google Account - there is the (pretty horrible) account switcher for that scenario.
    - bbarnett 5y ago
      Do you mean the login screen with a list of accounts, used from the browser? Or Android's multiple accounts ability? That doesn't mean more than one account per person is OK though. Just the reality than more than one person may share a device.
      - nl 5y ago
        A list of logins available in the browser. Here's the support page for it: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=0 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.... Lots of screenshots around if you google "Google Account Chooser". Pretty much everyone who works for a company that uses GSuite will be very familiar with it.
        bbarnett 5y ago
        These urls are blocked for me, but, from what you've said, it's about maintenance in paid gsuite, which doesn't mean more than one account per user. Google gives free storage, etc per account. I wonder, if you exceeded that and had a second, how quickly they'd say 'one account per person'?
- nl 5y ago
  That story doesn't seem very believable. Why are other people's personal accounts getting banned too? One possible explanation is that the exit IP for the company has had malware hosted on it, so that IP is getting banned from Google services. If they go home or turn off WiFi on their phones it will probably work.
  - skinkestek 5y ago
    > That story doesn't seem very believable. Why are other people's personal accounts getting banned too? Fully believable. In some cases people don't even have the slightest clue. In this case there is at least an explanation even if it is bad. PS: I don't hate everything Google do or any employees specifically, I just try to shine a light on the places where they fail like lack of transparency or even basic communication or their abuse of market power to try to kill competing browsers. They have done good work in other areas it seems like standing up against dragnet surveillance etc.
    - nl 5y ago
      The top voted comment on HN at the time thought it wasn't believable either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643

Exactly. I don't want this for the exact same reason.

It's also possible to get your personal GMail account banned after someone at your company breaks Google ToS: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_getting_google_to_ban_our_entire_company/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin... For the few Google products we use at work, like Calendar, we make sure that people do not register with their existing personal accounts but use their work email address.

bbarnett 5y ago
Isn't having more than one Gmail account a violation too?
- sokoloff 5y ago
  I don’t think so. We have a family gmail account (mostly for a shared calendar) and Google has explicit ways to use more than one account. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE....
- nl 5y ago
  It's not a violation to have more than one Google Account - there is the (pretty horrible) account switcher for that scenario.
  - bbarnett 5y ago
    Do you mean the login screen with a list of accounts, used from the browser? Or Android's multiple accounts ability? That doesn't mean more than one account per person is OK though. Just the reality than more than one person may share a device.
    - nl 5y ago
      A list of logins available in the browser. Here's the support page for it: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=0 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.... Lots of screenshots around if you google "Google Account Chooser". Pretty much everyone who works for a company that uses GSuite will be very familiar with it.
      - bbarnett 5y ago
        These urls are blocked for me, but, from what you've said, it's about maintenance in paid gsuite, which doesn't mean more than one account per user. Google gives free storage, etc per account. I wonder, if you exceeded that and had a second, how quickly they'd say 'one account per person'?
nl 5y ago
That story doesn't seem very believable. Why are other people's personal accounts getting banned too? One possible explanation is that the exit IP for the company has had malware hosted on it, so that IP is getting banned from Google services. If they go home or turn off WiFi on their phones it will probably work.
- skinkestek 5y ago
  > That story doesn't seem very believable. Why are other people's personal accounts getting banned too? Fully believable. In some cases people don't even have the slightest clue. In this case there is at least an explanation even if it is bad. PS: I don't hate everything Google do or any employees specifically, I just try to shine a light on the places where they fail like lack of transparency or even basic communication or their abuse of market power to try to kill competing browsers. They have done good work in other areas it seems like standing up against dragnet surveillance etc.
  - nl 5y ago
    The top voted comment on HN at the time thought it wasn't believable either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643