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Is it possible they're doing this in mass to benefit financially somehow?

• notriddle 4y ago
  How do you benefit financially by refusing to take people’s money?
• Pxtl 4y ago
  I think Hanlon's razor applies here. Any benefit would be overwhelmed by the reputational damage of "if you use Google there's a non-zero chance they'll completely rugpull you for no reason and with no possibility of appeal".
• dylan604 4y ago
  Even cynical me would think this isn't true, but willing to be shown differently. However, I would be willing to believe that it's just laziness in how they are trying to protect themselves from something that has a similar look to known existing behaviors to malicious users. If an account shows any behavior that matches the same activity patterns that has been used by malicious users in the past, just shut down that account. The laziness comes from how they handle those accounts once flagged in that they just shut them down. The non-lazy method would probably not scale well, so they again chose the lazy way to not do anything else.