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Google "randomly" shutting down accounts is a result of their fraud-detection processes. It's also why they (and any cloud provider) can be so unhelpful when th
by AceJohnny2 4y ago
Google "randomly" shutting down accounts is a result of their fraud-detection processes. It's also why they (and any cloud provider) can be so unhelpful when this happens: they're trying to protect their support tier from a DoS by fraudsters.
Every so often we loudly hear about egregious mistakes, with legitimate accounts getting shut down. This is a result of large numbers: they're hosting billions of accounts, so one-in-million mistakes happen thousands of times (and believe me, they're tuning their processes for even less than one-in-a-million mistakes)
You say you have a lot of Google accounts. This could already be a red flag in the detection processes. One obvious way to "legitimize" these accounts is to have proper 2FA setup for them. Try not to share 2FA methods (like phone numbers or Yubikeys) across them, in a way that a fraudster might do to save time/money.
You're unwittingly a bystander in a silent war going on between Google and fraudsters. Neither of them are divulging methods they're using to detect/evade, so it's hard to give advice on how to behave legitimately. Try to do things that would be expensive for a fraudster, like the above 2FA advice.
- greatpatton 4y agoNot only that they can just shutdown your account because you shared picture of your son infected penis with your pediatrician. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/billboards-seen-in-LA-and-SF-warn-Texas-17395182.php https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/billboards-seen-in-LA-a... And now their reviewers are also supposed to be wannabe doctor. I quote "The company has consulted pediatricians, she said, so that its human reviewers understand possible conditions that might appear in photographs taken for medical reasons." and "A Google spokesperson said the company stands by its decisions, even though law enforcement cleared the two men. " Ok this time I'm really off Google.
- AceJohnny2 4y agoblame child pornography (laws)