"According to Google, the situation described by that Reddit poster simply isn’t how account bans work. If one account violates Google’s TOS, that particular account may be eligible for a ban, but the ban doesn’t “stick” to the hardware, and just because other people logged in on the same device wouldn’t mean they automatically get banned, too."
"According to Google, the situation described by that Reddit poster simply isn’t how account bans work. If one account violates Google’s TOS, that particular account may be eligible for a ban, but the ban doesn’t “stick” to the hardware, and just because other people logged in on the same device wouldn’t mean they automatically get banned, too."
Maybe not on purpose but this is known to be not how it works (amazing that being said on HackerNews): https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/04/family-loses-all-their-acco... https://www.androidauthority.com/google-account-bans-3654171...