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That's honestly unacceptable. Google deserves whatever anti-trust action comes their way. It's absolutely insane that they can lock you out of your phone, email, youtube, password manager, business, and everything you've ever used sign in with google for on the whims of some buggy algorithm.

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Stuff like this isn't the result of some faceless software algorithm that's only harming people because of 'bugs.'

Consumer abuse isn't an emergent property of algorithms. They're designed, by people, to abuse consumers.

I agree with everything except for the fact you are treating gmail, YT and other google services users as "consumers"

remember if you do not pay for a service you are the product, and 90% of google services and algorithm's are deigned to control their product (aka the users)

This is the root of the problem; to google and their devs you the user are not a person, are not a human, you are just raw ore for them to mine, refine, pack and resell to their consumer the advertisers

I think you're confusing customers and consumers, which are related but different. Google users may not be their customers, but they are absolutely consumers.

This is standard consumer abuse all companies practice, big and small.

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