Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

Post by praestigiare » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 9:57 AM UTC

z3t4 wrote: post #146

I hear a lot of people complain they got falsely banned by some automated process. But automatic processes are easy to game, so just do what the spammers likely do, slightly edit the app, re-upload using another account and IP, etc, repeat. I'm sad every time I install an Android app, thinking how much crap/spyware it will install on my device ... Android should allow other "app stores", just like you can have differ…

Post by hoekit » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 9:58 AM UTC

golergka wrote: post #144

antocv wrote: post #134

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You, still using google for anything, is insane. OK, harsh word, but really, your behaviour is modified by the search results/ads/suggestions you see. Every search you do, leans you to continue using Google in the future, and looking at the web through their eyes.

If you're a mobile app developer, what choice do you have?

Post by golergka » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:14 AM UTC

hoekit wrote: post #173

golergka wrote: post #144

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If you're a mobile app developer, what choice do you have?

I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year now and I've not noticed the difference. Stack Overflow, MDN are common search results while the occasional blog post also find its way into the result..

Post by huffmsa » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:19 AM UTC

xyN10 wrote: post #159

icebraining wrote: post #143

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How is that any different than literally any other way of discovering information?

I no longer find interesting things in the top results like 10 years ago. Some search terms only return about 100 results when there should be many more. Academic websites seem to have nearly vanished from the results. Perhaps the results get better if you pay Google by allowing them cookies, but I think that wasn't necessary 10 years ago either. So the difference is that in a non-biased library you find many more an…

Post by em500 » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 AM UTC

cf141q5325 wrote: post #155

em500 wrote: post #135

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The desktop distribution model was awful. I wasted many many hours in the past cleaning crapware from family PCs.

To be fair, complain about your family, not the desktop model. Its like babyproofing, the equivalent of no one beeing allowed to buy a steakknife because some people are not grown up enough to handle one carefully. edit: Its ofcourse a difficult subject, like with your parents getting too old to drive and not recognizing it, but after all not a technical but a societal problem.