I want to take a moment to genuinely thank the Google team for stepping up, enforcing the Terms of Service, and finally bringing the ban hammer down on the accounts actively abusing the Gemini CLI and Antigravity generous quota.
For the past week, this platform has been a complete nightmare for legitimate developers. Those of us who actually use it as intended and pay for stable access have been severely punished, constantly hit with ‘resources exhausted’ and ‘model overloaded’ errors. We couldn’t even get a basic prompt through the Basic model, let alone do actual production work. It was barely usable.
Let’s be completely clear about why this happened: Google didn’t severely reduce our rate limits because they wanted to ruin our day. They were forced to throttle the system just to keep the entire infrastructure from collapsing under the massive load generated by abusers. Users plugging unauthorized, reverse-engineered third-party tools like OpenClaw into their accounts were burning up to 1.2 BILLION tokens a month per user by looping their entire file history every single turn. You were costing the platform thousands of dollars in API calls on a $20 subscription. No enterprise server can sustain that level of parasite activity without mitigating it.
Now that the bans are rolling out and the abusers are being purged, the limits for normal people are finally starting to recover. The service is actually usable again for those of us who respect the quotas.
Yet, instead of taking responsibility for ruining the platform’s stability, the abusers are flooding this forum acting like victims. We have people crying about ‘Discrimination against Open Source’, threatening to file FTC complaints, and writing massive legal essays about the Brazilian ‘Marco Civil da Internet’ to claim private censorship.
Some are even lying to themselves, claiming their bans are just a ‘GCP Identity/Session Desync’ bug. Just look at the absolute peak of this copium in this thread right here:
[Urgent] Mass 403 ToS Bans on Gemini API/Antigravity for Open Source CLI Users (Paid Tier).
You claim the rules weren’t clear. Look at this: (Google Antigravity Terms)
Section 6 of the Antigravity Terms explicitly states that ‘Using third party software, tools, or services to access the Service (e.g. using OpenClaw with Antigravity OAuth) is a violation’. It literally names the exact tool you are using. You didn’t get caught in a server bug; you got caught blatantly breaking a very explicitly written rule.
And this parasitic entitlement doesn’t just stop at the Paid Tier. The student tiers are currently infested as well. While developers are fighting for basic API limits, abusers are actively exploiting the Google AI Pro Students 1-year free promo by creating multiple burner accounts with fake IDs. They are endlessly churning free accounts to bypass limits, further dragging down the system for actual students who just want to learn.
To the Google AI team: thank you for cleaning this up. Please keep the coast clear for legitimate users and continue locking out the abusers.
To the ToS violators: stop demanding tech support for a service you deliberately hijacked. Read the contracts you agree to, stop ruining the platform for the rest of us, and take the loss.