Comment by nthypes
5 hours ago
Meta is no different. I know a company that had their OAuth app on Meta rendered completely unusable just because one of their employees (a dev) had their personal Facebook account banned by Meta for no reason. They tried to escalate it multiple times but got nowhere, lol. Meta is even worse because accounts need to be 'personal'; if you have a Business Manager, the users added to it are all tied to their personal Meta/Facebook accounts. This is ludicrous.
To me, building any business with dependencies on Meta is just a bad business plan.
Meta 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.
Yeah, 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
Can't find this now but google did at least once disable company's accounts after dev got their account suspended.
And 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.
> google knows it's the same household as the parent,
Nearly 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.
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It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.
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The is in context of B2B, which meta has a huge ecosystem and often rips away a companies revenue for hidden reasons
Crazy 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.
Seems relevant to me as it is still a service that their company relied on.
Sure you're not misreading Metal?
They're a popular SSO provider.
A 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.