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

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Post by howard941 »

maxxxxx wrote: post #172
quickthrower2 wrote: post #119

From the blog comments: > Good luck man. I had an app removed because someone did a review of it and their review had screenshots of my app and Google banned the app for copyright infringement siting them as the source. No appeal, one strike, never got through to a human. If true that’s laughablly insane.

Seems this will be our future. A lot of systems will be massive, automated and do mostly the right thing. But to cut cost there will be no way to fix errors so if you get caught up in such a situation you are just sorry, out of luck.

Kafkaesque, with a modern twist

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Post by dang »

ucaetano wrote: post #300
supermatt wrote: post #299

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EU ruled on it. You are wrong. Maybe you need to go read some actual law instead of hbr... The market is the common market, the commodity is android apps. Just like I said, just like the EU said. As for defining "arbitrary markets", I am not the one who described the appstore as a 'market' - that was google. Go try your inflated ego elsewhere, i'll just call you out on your BS.

> EU ruled on it. You are wrong. Oh, you mean that if politicians pass a law saying the sky is red, then it stops being blue? Seriously, if the EU "rules" that gravity doesn't exist, then it suddenly stops existing? Don't be angry because you don't understand the subject...

We've warned you many times about incivility in your comments here. You've ignored our requests and continued to break the guidelines frequently. That's not ok, so I've banned your account.

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Post by dang »

Yizahi wrote: post #213
majewsky wrote: post #182

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Why so nihilistic? Systems are like that because people designed them this way . If it takes regulations to fix that problem, I'm all for it.

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Post by wgoodall01 »

megous wrote: post #276

If Google can't be bothered to give a fuck, can't this be mittigated by splitting the responsibilities? Have a company that takes care of building, uploading and distributing apps from developers to the app store, and fixing all the distribution issues (via Google/Apple contacts in cofee shops in SV, that could push for resolution of issues internally). And developers would work with this comapny, and would not need…

Basically, that sounds like a union for app developers. That might end up being a positive thing.

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Post by ddingus »

smadurange wrote: post #257
ddingus wrote: post #51

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Please, you engineer, do your best to make the app usable from a browser. I dislike apps. Sometimes they make sense. Fine. Often, they do not, or offer less functionality than PC or web does. If you need payment, make that easy, same. Cancel easy too. Just because that is nice, and we all could use nice. You like nice, I like nice. Let us be nice. If you need profanity, whatever, I get it. Let's be adults. I don't li…

Haha nice one. I shall too advocate :D

It all adds up.

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Post by iamthirsty »

supermatt wrote: post #124
iamthirsty wrote: post #46

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No it can't, Google isn't the only "App Store" in town, and you are not forced to use them, so it in no way could apply.

Google is (by far) the dominant supplier of android apps, so it very much applies. We can debate this forever, the only thing that will prove it either way is a legal ruling - and I hope that happens soon, and results in a modernisation of competition law.

But Android is not a technological monopoly, and Google has not monopolized all Android apps. You might have low standards for the application of anti-trust laws, but the government does not.

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Post by supermatt »

iamthirsty wrote: post #316
supermatt wrote: post #124

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Google is (by far) the dominant supplier of android apps, so it very much applies. We can debate this forever, the only thing that will prove it either way is a legal ruling - and I hope that happens soon, and results in a modernisation of competition law.

But Android is not a technological monopoly, and Google has not monopolized all Android apps. You might have low standards for the application of anti-trust laws, but the government does not.

The EU has already ruled on exactly this.

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Post by geniium »

maxencecornet wrote: post #174

The exact same thing happened to me last week My ads-free really simple React Native app was removed from the play store for “deceptive ads” I don't care too much as this was just a way to learn React Native for me, but it's still really weird To be honest every interaction I have with Google products nowadays are bad: - This app kicked from the Play store - A bug with the new Adsense Auto-ads where you couldn't disa…

Don't forget to switch to something else than Google Chrome as well.

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Post by jakobegger »

Avamander wrote: post #169
jakobegger wrote: post #147

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And after paying those $25 they are free to spam the review team with hundreds of submissions? Doesn't sound sustainable to me. If App Stores charged a fee per submission, that would drastically cut down on spam submissions, and free up resources for those of us who actually put a lot of effort into our apps.

Once you set a fee I know apps will be updated less often, it'd be sad for open-source apps - which I'd say are the most useful of all apps on Google Play.

If you spend hundreds of hours working on something, paying a reasonable fee to publish it is not going to stop anyone.

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Post by jakobegger »

skykooler wrote: post #245
jakobegger wrote: post #123

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I think what Google and Apple should do is to add support for a "premium" upload feature. Leave the standard process as it is, but add a "premium tier". For a fee of 100 EUR, you get to upload an app, and you get a competent review from a real human within a certain time frame, with a list of all things that you must change to make it compliant. The problem is that right now a spammer who creates hundreds of low effo…

It already costs $100 to be able to upload an app to Apple's App Store - I feel like that sort of support should be included in that price.

I meant 100€ per review.
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