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Comment by throwaranay4933

1 day ago

This screenshot from Discord suggests the idea that the outage is caused by automated GCP account ban: https://x.com/acgfbr/status/2056866780866351323

Automated account bans are the bane of internet existence today. I was banned from reddit for "bad behavior", I appealed and both times it's oops, there was nothing there, some automated system thought your comment was rude even though it wasn't.

Then they send you very strongly worded messages that says trying to work around the ban will lead to something bad happening.

I've been worried my main email account provider would do this. The core issue is even if you pay, even if you are a company as shown here companies don't carefully enough have limits on banning. I can only imagine they ban lots of scammy things every day so "they think it's working great".