I don't understand why the fear of being sued is not preventing Google (and other big players) from misusing their position like this. Is it impossible to sue Google?
One of the most interesting ones was Free Range Content v Google[1] where a number of Adsense publishers had their accounts closed after Google detected invalid click activity on their websites. The publishers sued alleging Google breached the Adsense terms of service.
Incredibly the Court denied Google’s motion to dismiss and allowed the breach of contract claim to continue. Google settled shortly thereafter but the takeaway is that these terms of service contracts are not as ironclad as Google would like you to believe.
[1]https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califor...
You are paying hundreds of dollars per hour to someone who is discovering your issue.
It's possible,sure. But how do you think that's going to play out?
Unless you lost kin, or a 5 million dollar inheritence due to your issue with Google, you're going to find a way to live with it.
The whole idea is that you get a lawyer to be taken seriously instead of been dismissed.
It costs them money to have their lawyers look over a letter from your lawyer. It costs them nothing to ignore your emails. It also separates you from most scammers, that would not get a lawyer because their position is bullshit but will 100% send a bunch of emails to googles support.
Theoretically no but practically yes. Even if they know they are in the wrong and would loose a court case, they still "win" by just dragging it out and making you go broke on legal fees.
1.8T is an unimaginable amount of money.