Google bans users for using Antigravity with OpenClaw
I saw a lot of posts from people saying that they got banned for using Antigravity with OpenClaw via proxy. While most users are getting banned from using Antigravity only, some users have also been banned from their entire Google account.
Today, Varun Mohan posted on X saying that they have started banning users for "malicious usage" of Antigravity as it's against their ToS. And while he mentions that only Antigravity usage has been blocked for such users and not the entire Google accounts, I came across this post claiming that they are banning whole Google accounts.
This is bad!
Peter Steinberger also posted calling them out for this saying, "pretty draconian from Google". He also linked to this HackerNews discussion where a lot of people are discussing this.
I think, people are paying $250 a month for their Google AI Ultra plans and even if it was against ToS, Google should have issued a warning before banning users. Earlier, we have seen the fumble from Anthropic that they banned users but later rolled back saying, "Nothing is changing about how you can use the Agent SDK and MAX subscriptions!".
The point is, OpenClaw is now too big to ban users for using your product with it, unless you make your stance very clear from the start. And it's a huge negative PR if you do that.
Update:
Came across this post where the person's entire Google account for banned for connecting his Gmail to OpenClaw. He wasn't using Antigravity backend services with OpenClaw though, but still got banned.
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