[nthypes]

Meta is no different. I know a company that had their OAuth app on Meta rendered completely unusable just because one of their employees (a dev) had their personal Facebook account banned by Meta for no reason. They tried to escalate it multiple times but got nowhere, lol. Meta is even worse because accounts need to be 'personal'; if you have a Business Manager, the users added to it are all tied to their personal Meta/Facebook accounts. This is ludicrous.

[dylan604]

To me, building any business with dependencies on Meta is just a bad business plan.

[matsemann]

Yeah, people loose their business because a kid is logged in on their iPad, gets their google account suspended, and google knows it's the same household as the parent, and everything gets shut down

[subscribed]

Can't find this now but google did at least once disable company's accounts after dev got their account suspended.

And as we know from the recent Gemini ban wave, you can get suspended just because.

[genxy]

Everyone needs a defensible root of trust, this goes all the way down to the registrar you use for your domain.

[londons_explore]

> google knows it's the same household as the parent,

Nearly all these linkages are due to people sharing recovery email addresses and phone numbers. Don't do that.

[dylan604]

Are you honestly saying that a kid should not use their parent's email address as a recovery option? Seems like that would be the natural way to do it.

[true_religion]

I don’t know about you, but I have a family account that we use as an email recovery for kids.

Adults have multiple emails so they won’t have to share it.

If something takes out the family email account, that’s fine. The only thing going there regularly are school notices, contractor receipts and recovery emails.

[matsemann]

Point is that if one account gets suspended, all your accounts might. Your kids', the family account, your separate one that you use for gcp billing etc

[MrDarcy]

It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.

[nthypes]

Meta and Google B2B are both horrible. Their ad account bans are constant, and they have no real escalation process to get help. These companies are monopolies that should treat businesses more seriously, especially in these situations.