I would like to publish an #Android app, but I feel like I've heard stories about people having some kind of issue and their entire Google account gets yanked, which would be... bad.
Do folks worried about this make a separate google account just for this? Does it help at all if you get banned?
I suspect this will not be likely to affect me given that my app is basically just a repackaging of an open source PWA app with no permissions requested, no ads and fully open source, so I am not too worried, but I also feel weird using my personal account for anything else.
@pganssle These stories have made me set on a Chrome extension I wrote for Django News ~5 years ago and never published out of fear. I read some guidelines that said to create a new Google Account to tie them just in case.
While this isn't exactly Android, I suspect they are relatable.
@webology I feel like I've also heard of people losing every connected account, but often times when these things break on HN you look into it and it's like, "Google changed the rules, we were totally legitimately using their API to make just one little click farm and then they said that was banned and banned us forever!!11one"
Plus considering I work there (and know a bunch of people who work there even if I leave), I suspect I might be able to avoid *some* of the more Kafka-esque parts of the cycle without resorting to HN.
Still, I might make an extra account just to be safe. Maybe I'll use my work account as the "backup" e-mail so that if I get banned and it propagates they'll just ban my work account 😛
