To me, building any business with dependencies on Meta is just a bad business plan.
replyYeah, 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
replyCan't find this now but google did at least once disable company's accounts after dev got their account suspended.
replyAnd as we know from the recent Gemini ban wave, you can get suspended just because.
Everyone needs a defensible root of trust, this goes all the way down to the registrar you use for your domain.
reply> google knows it's the same household as the parent,
replyNearly all these linkages are due to people sharing recovery email addresses and phone numbers. Don't do that.
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.
replyI don’t know about you, but I have a family account that we use as an email recovery for kids.
replyAdults 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.
It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.
replyMeta 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.
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replyThe is in context of B2B, which meta has a huge ecosystem and often rips away a companies revenue for hidden reasons
replyCrazy considering this was their primary argument against the App Store's revenue share model. Not that they're wrong, but you'd think they would at least be consistent.
replySeems relevant to me as it is still a service that their company relied on.
replySure you're not misreading Metal?
replyThey're a popular SSO provider.
replyA huge number of small businesses have no Internet presence beyond their Facebook and Insta pages, so … yes they are extremely relevant to a discussion about the risk to small business of flaky hyperscalers.
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