Funny, even after reading everything about privacy and people as the product and whatnot, this might be the thing that gets me to stop using google products
Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
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Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
#492There has to be legislation against these huge companies, who hold so much commercial power.
I had my Adsense account terminated a few years ago and since then I can’t do anything commercial on Google’s platform. My appeal wasn’t heard and I wasn’t given any info on what happened. I expect a competitor did something.
I can’t make YouTube video and add ads, and I can’t add ads to any new website businesses I may want to put online.
Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
#493 This is the result when the entire app ecosystem is set up like a plantation developers of the slaves and the Google play store is the owner
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In just the last few months they've made it possible to preserve these snapshots after destroying the database: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rd...
And there is also delete protection by default for new prod databases: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-rd...
TIL! Thank you!
Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
#4952 WORDS: "Class Action"
The comments reference many developers that have similar experiences of financial loss due to google automated termination. This is actionable.
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We should help change the conversation on that.
Sure, but how do we retrain billions of users? And more importantly, how should we convince two massive companies that take 30% of all appstore revenue to give up their control?
I think it starts by bringing up privacy concerns. Of course, a lot of us are culprits in privacy invasion but the rest of us should be constantly reminding people that when they install an app they might be giving up more than they realize.
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I’ve seen enough posts like this that end with the developers being reinstated to doubt google here. They need to provide actual humans as resources to developers and companies. They take a huge cut, they should provide the service. But really we should move away from these app stores.
I don't know if Google gets a huge cut now but they certainly didn't start that way. Originally when Android shipped Google took 30% but only got 5%, the other 25% went to the carrier. The fact that they only got 5% apparently meant they were barely covering costs. That maybe have changed in the last 10 years but I don't think it has. The help on it says > The remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operat…
My carrier has nothing to do with which phone I chose and use, so I highly doubt it's true at least outside of the big US operators.
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So right now they have an appeal form. It didn't work in the case above. The difference after your change, is now you lose $50 and STILL have to post to twitter to try and get your problem solved.
The appeal form is not an actual person, the ombudsman would have a name and a face
What evidence do you have that the name and face would give you a different answer? Somehow paying $50 changes something?
Re: Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
#499Years ago, when Google kicked our browser extension out of their store, we were in a similar situation.
Fortunately, I knew more than one person who worked there and begged them to ask around. Eventually, we were told something to the effect of, Google outsources management of the store. Once an actual Google employee got their eyes on it, we were reinstated.
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""trust" should depend on your own evaluation of the developer, based on metrics like how long their app has existed, customer reviews, what protections they have around handling data, etc. You have the ability to do a much better job evaluating trust than Apple or Google are likely to." Wow - no, we do not have the ability to ascertain the overall trustworthiness of a dev, certainly not better than Google or Apple.…
Assuming the developer has been in business for a significant amount of time, there are a lot of signals that help tell you whether an app is legit or not. As a random example, if I look for information aout Overcast (a fairly successful app from an independent developer), I get: * A bunch of reviews from users, very few of which sound fake: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overcast/id888422857 * Articles about the ap…
I mean, both Google and Apple analyze apps for any sort of detectable malicious libraries/code. It's not perfect by any means, but it's something.
I don't know why this business got banned. I assume it's due to the outsourced dev they used. I doubt they're technically competent and reviewed the app themselves, so who knows what kind of bullshit the dev stuffed in their or their other apps.