> might mark accounts that use microg as suspicious which could increase the risk of Google banning the account
So what?
As a Chinese the only way for me to connect to Google is through a proxy, and I'm a Firefox user with some privacy settings enabled.
Few months ago I started to notice that Google is keep logging me out of their services, and I had to go through the entire authentication process to log back into my accounts in order to check my emails and do some searches without having be spammed by that capthshitTM of theirs etc, then after few days I'm been logged out again.
Eventually, I got tired of this, and decided "Hey, at least duckduckgo.com won't try to give troubles as long as you use their service normally", so I quickly developed this new habit of not to use google.com. Now I only use YouTube, Gmail, Play Store and sometime the backup service (Google Drive or maybe Photo, I don't care) on my Android phone.
If Google wants to ban all microG users, I'd say that's Great! It was fun Google, thank you for the service.
Plus, can Google actually block a microG user ethically? Using microG isn't hacking or abusing Google service, and "suspicious" is not enough for an account to be blocked, at least permanently.
> Plus, can Google actually block a microG user ethically? Using microG isn't hacking or abusing Google service, and "suspicious" is not enough for an account to be blocked, at least permanently.
What'd be ethical? Google can permanently ban accounts for any reason and they do.
Yeah, but their support ticket handlers do have ethics. If Google support don't unblock your account to undo their mistakes, then it's still their fault.
Looks like you've never tried to submit a ticket to Google. They just don't answer, let alone apply any ethics to your case. You need a significant Twitter following to force even the simplest response out of them. There are countless horror stories floating around HN about not just individials', but entire companies' Google accounts disappearing overnight because of a mistake and at best being partially recovered only after literally thousands of people on Twitter made some noise and called up their Google connections.
Not sure it'll apply to all the cases, but I actually did submitted a ticket to Google Pay on support.google.com back in early 2019 and somebody in Google did replied and tried to fix the issue (So I can pay them, hehe).
But as I understand it, it is really risky if you host all your online assets in one company. So if you go back around on the topic, yeah, that 30% fee is probably really too much for company might not want to serve you.
So what?
As a Chinese the only way for me to connect to Google is through a proxy, and I'm a Firefox user with some privacy settings enabled.
Few months ago I started to notice that Google is keep logging me out of their services, and I had to go through the entire authentication process to log back into my accounts in order to check my emails and do some searches without having be spammed by that capthshitTM of theirs etc, then after few days I'm been logged out again.
Eventually, I got tired of this, and decided "Hey, at least duckduckgo.com won't try to give troubles as long as you use their service normally", so I quickly developed this new habit of not to use google.com. Now I only use YouTube, Gmail, Play Store and sometime the backup service (Google Drive or maybe Photo, I don't care) on my Android phone.
If Google wants to ban all microG users, I'd say that's Great! It was fun Google, thank you for the service.
Plus, can Google actually block a microG user ethically? Using microG isn't hacking or abusing Google service, and "suspicious" is not enough for an account to be blocked, at least permanently.