Developer Tells Google to Go Somewhere

Andrew Spinks has the right idea:

Google / YouTube did one of its 'terms of service' violations on Spinks and his company, Re-Logic.  After asking why, trying to get it reinstated, attempting to work with google, Spinks did what everyone should do: cut the cord with google:

"Consider it burned."

Google / Youtube has become a censorious joke.  Who knows what caused this guy's whole google world to get erased?  Was it a  bot?  An SJW?  No one knows.  This can cause havoc and major losses for a company that's used google for 15 years.

"Google uses a single account system across nearly all of its products. On one hand, this makes it easy for users of one Google service to try other Google services, but it also leads to ridiculously disproportionate punishments if a user gets hit with an account ban. A YouTube copyright claim, Google Pay transaction dispute, or TOS violation can lead to your entire online life being taken down. If you're all in on the Google ecosystem, a Google account ban means you lose access to your entire email account; all the pictures you've ever taken; your cell phone service; your ability to communicate with friends and family; all your 2FA accounts; anything that uses Google OAuth; your app development business; your YouTube business and all your followers; your purchased apps, games, movies, music, and books; and all your contacts, documents, bookmarks, and notes.

For many people, a Google account ban is an online death sentence, and it's also a punishment doled out without much recourse for the victim. How would you even begin to dispute a Google account ban when the first thing that happens is your Gmail stops working? If you happen to be a famous indie developer with a hit game in development for Google's streaming service, publicly canceling your game on Twitter is probably a good way to get your case heard."

I like this guy Spinks.  Rather than continue to grovel, he simply told google to piss off.  He told Google that "Doing business with you is a liability."  That's the right attitude.  He is the talent.  Not them:

By making so much of what it does free, google has created a huge ecosystem of people dependent on it.  Not only cases like this one, but the SJW element of google makes it no longer a viable concern.  I use the Brave browser, and am slowly moving things over to the proton mail suite of products.  I recommend doing this sooner rather than later.  If this hot shot game developer can get vaporized, you're even more at the mercy of a bot or an SJW.  As Vox says on his blog - remove yourself from the 'cult of free'.

It's good advice.

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