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Google Cloud did not let me verify my billing account

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I signed up for Google Cloud (free tier) just to try it out. I made the smallest compute VM and played with it.

Just after two days I got an email saying that I need to verify my billing account, or they will shut down my account by May. So I gave them the documents they asked for.

Well, apparently that was not enough. I got another email saying I need to take better photos of my documents. So, I tried to do just that.

Except this time the the verification page did not even open. I tried it multiple times, using Brave and Chromium. I even tried to open it with my phone on desktop mode. Nothing worked.

After that I gave up and deleted my billing account. Because I don't want Google to think I am abusing Google Cloud and delete my Google account. That account is tied to my bank and brokerage accounts as well.

Maybe I should migrate those accounts. For VPS I am going back to using AWS Lightsail.

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