alt Hacker NewsSo a Google AI pro/ultra account is intended to be used from their cli or tools (like their open-gravity agent front end).
Their API usage isn't included in these plans, although under the hood open-gravity uses the API.
People have been using the API auth credential intended for anti-gravity with open claw, presumably causing a significant amount of use and have been caught.
The Google admin tools and process haven’t quite been able to cope with this situation and people have been overly banned with poor information sent to the them.
I don’t think either OpenAI or Anthropic any API use in their ‘pro’ plans either?
This reminds me of the customers of “unlimited broadband” of yesteryear getting throttled or banned for running Tor servers.
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so far i've been able to use gemini pro just fine from codex cli using my web session mcp bridge: https://github.com/agentify-sh/desktop
it seems like the main problem with OpenCode and OpenClaw is that they call the API directly bypassing the website
my approach is browser automation, its technically against the ToS too but there's default mechanisms to avoid unintentional mass spam.
I think what pissed off Google and Anthropic was that people were running through multiple accounts from OpenCode and ruined it for everybody else
> The Google admin tools and process haven’t quite been able to cope with this situation and people have been overly banned with poor information sent to the users.
I can’t recall any success story of Google’s support team or process coping with a consumer’s situation, many have been posted here. this isn’t a new outcome, just a new cause
I do want to understand what’s happening with the $250/mo fees of users caught in this. will it be automatically cancelled at some point?