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>unless you really are being abusive

That doesn't put my mind at ease. Under who's definition? Do I even get told what I did wrong? You try to draw a distinction between the free and paid products but that doesn't address the perception people have of the company in general. If I was a small startup I wouldn't want to risk it.



I remember hearing a story about how one engineer had worked for something nefarious (spam? gambling? straight-up malware?) and got hired by a different company. Eventually something triggered on that engineer's account that caused Google to spread a blacklist to everyone's account at the new company.

Potentially apocryphal, but it rings true enough that you have no idea what might anger the Google automation.


This is a fairly serious accusation. I'd really love to see some proof of that.




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