Would love to sympathize but I can’t agree with their “neighbour” analogy. A more apt analogy is this: If someone has illegal dealings in the past, and you conduct business with them in the present, the authorities are well within their rights to investigate you. If you didn’t know beforehand, the investigation should convince you to cease further activities. If you did know and still proceeded, it’s your own damn fa…
Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
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#23The OP doesn't seem to know for certain what code is in their app. Is it possible that the outsourced developers they're using could have introduced dangerous code, and have a track record of doing so before? Nowhere in the post does it suggest that the author has contacted them to find out why their account is banned, which seems a little odd given how frustrated they have become with Google for banning them.
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#25Sounds like a bad situation. If I were you I would simply change the app ID, create a new Play account and publish it there. If there problem is with the connection to a banned account and not the app, then this removes that problem/connection.
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#26Also, the author should make sure to publish their app on non-Google App Stores and remind users that they still have a choice.
And for those questioning on why the author is upset if they're still on the iOS store: Android is about 85% of the global market, and about 2/3rds of the US devices.
iOS is this weird dying phone OS that Apple is keeping alive even though there really aren't that many users.
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#27To attract developers, these platforms make some promises. A "review" process for supposed violations of TOS causing cancellations is always among them. But to me these "reviews" always seem either completely faked or some version of a lowest-level employee simply restating that the algo has made its choice and they are powerless.
More incriminating is that every time a story starts to go viral, it seems a higher-up jumps in and instantly fixes it. (i.e. they can deliver a "real" review if they want to)
Since you paid them money (which they never refund) and they promised you an actual review if something goes wrong (which they never seem to actually deliver)...How is this any different than selling a counterfeit product? Isn't this legally actionable fraud?
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#28It sounds like the problem is with the outsourced developers responsible for the app. It's their account which has been banned - for multiple violations of the ToS. Now, perhaps this is just over-zealous enforcement on Google's part, but it's also possible that these developers have created shady apps before, or are adding shady code to apps developed for others. The OP doesn't seem to know for certain what code is i…
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#29My Google account was entered as a recovery email address by someone else. Most likely because it was a single letter removed from an abbreviation of their real legal name. I got an email informing me of that fact and instantly disavowed any association with the link right there in the email.
What should happen but a year later but Google letting me know that "your Google account [other email] was deleted due to a violation of our Terms of Service that was left unresolved.".
I tried to contact Google, I tried to disavow the account again, no reply and a dead page. My account isn't dead, but I seem to be irreversibly linked (the hypothetical Google term would be 'avowed' I guess, given that the opposite 'disavowal' was in the URI to reverse the process) to a ToS violation severe enough to warrant account deletion through no fault of my own. Simply because a random person signing up for a new account on the other side of the world typoed i instead of u.
For all I know my reputation with Google is so bad that a single click on the wrong YouTube video or a new algorithm with marginally different scoring running on my account will delete it all. I have zero certainty through no fault of my own.
Edit: Could hypothetically be a great way of shutting up political dissidents (and their YouTube accounts) or anyone you don't like. List their email as a recovery address on ten new accounts, get ToS violations on all of them before they get a chance to disavow them (do it while they're likely sleeping maybe) and you're done.
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#30I imagine the comments will be either: its your fault, dont trust google and have a strategy that totally relies on a party out of your control, & in this day and age you have to do this and this happened to me with google/apple/paypal/microsoft etc. While i think relying on google (or a single platform) is dangerous, these platforms really need to address these issues. While their isn’t much competition, they are re…
> Dont trust google and [don't] have a strategy that totally relies on a party out of your control Last week, much of Google and Facebook were brought to a halt after Apple revoked their enterprise certificates. While the circumstances justified Apple's actions in this case, the fact remains that even Google and Facebook are largely reliant on another large company. If Apple completely banned all Facebook apps from t…
This is the very definition of a monopoly, isn't it? If the government was working properly, it would be ready to break up these companies, as well in other areas of oligopoly such as oil and banking.