I decided to try Firebase. When I go to the console, I not only see my own project, but two projects that I never created or was supposed to have access to:
Those projects seem to be created by a "Rohit Travel & Tours". I can see some of the details:
When I go to Google Cloud's resource manager, sure enough, the project is also there, along with a few "My First Project" projects that seem to belong to the same people:
I'm not sure why I got access to this. It's either a dangerous bug, or a clueless admin that added one of my emails to the project.
I'd like to remove that project since it's just clutter. However, I can't find a way to remove myself from the project, and since I don't have any kind of admin access, there's nothing I can actually change there. In fact, I can't find my account listed on any of the role/member fields either, so I'm not sure what's the real story there.
So far the admin emails listed on the accounts have been unresponsive when I requested that my account be removed.
There's no way to contact Google Cloud to request that either. Apparently the only way to contact them is with a paid support account of some kind.
So my question is: is there a way for me to ever remove myself from these accounts, so I don't see them on my panels, especially the Firebase dashboard?
Or am I stuck with these app accounts forever?
You cannot remove yourself from the Firebase project, because you also cannot remove yourself from the Google Cloud project. Google was made aware that people need this in 2011 (sic!) but until now did not add this feature. There is a Change.org petition now which will hopefully get enough developers to sign.
At least as of May 2020, you can go to the "IAM & Admin" section, edit your permissions and then remove yourself.
When such projects show up for me, it's usually because someone added a group that I'm a member of (like [email protected]
) as a collaborator to that project. If that is the cause, there is no way to remove me/you as an individual user. One of the owners on the project will have to remove the overly broad group, and replace it by either a better targeted group or by the individual users.
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