Comment by hbn

This has been known for quite a while; when I published an Android app ~10 years ago I saw lots of people advising you to create a separate Google account to publish apps under, because a robot can just terminate your entire online identity for the crime of trying to contribute to Google's app ecosystem.

I left behind Android and as many Google services as I could in 2020 and so far I've only been more vindicated with that decision over time.