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This was a fun read. Absolutely baffling behaviour from Google.

• fg137 1mo ago
  Not baffling at all. Google could not care less about individual users. (lots of horror stories about account getting disabled here and on reddit.) They only care about large enterprise customers. Not even the smaller ones, only the largest. Speaking from first hand experience.
  • jeroenhd 1mo ago
    A division of the Ukranian government seems to come pretty close to a "large enterprise". Maybe there are politics involved, but fixing a broken regex seems well worth the time to convince a foreign government to rely on your tech. Of course, the support request never reached anyone who knows what a regex is, so bugs get confused for policy and nobody cares to fix it.
• Mashimo 1mo ago
  I get it, they want to stop scammeers to sign up with domains that look close like a real email provider. In this case web.de