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Smells fishy to me. What if I include a link to google.com, where the user can just google AppName + "privacy policy" to find the policy? How far can you be removed from a link to the policy and still be ok?
> 1) Unexpectedly pulling an app with no warning and then imposing a 7-day review period is not reasonable. OK, my app only has tens of thousands of downloads. No, no. Don't apologize. Would you expect Google to remove twitter's app with no prior notice? How about a U.S. government app? Why should you expect different treatment from Google than Twitter et al.? Google has to provide a consistent and responsive experie…
What came first, an Abusive Apple or an Abusive Google?
I can't help to think how much better the mobile world would be with Microsoft vs Google. I wonder what would be the great difference? Right now it's Veblen good vs utility.
Whatever the case, at least you still can use apk.
To be honest, I would think twice nowadays if I wanted to do invest my precious life in developing an iOS app and have my income derived from that. If the gatekeeper is unhappy, they can kill my livelihood without any recourse.
Same thing is happening in the ecommerce space with Amazon: they can ban your seller account without any reason and you lose all the revenue and your funds get frozen.
Shoot first, ask questions later. Thats whats going on here and threatening good businesses and individuals who have invested time and money into these platforms.
So if you think that these monopoly platforms should not be regulated properly, think about these scenarios. And Im not buying the “security” argument that always gets thrown around.
Does anyone have advice on how to safely "decouple" your personal @gmail.com account from your Android and GCP developer account? I'd like to delete my GCP and Android developer account, but I'm worried the process will inadvertently delete my personal gmail as well. Shame on me for using it to login in to these types of accounts in the first place :(
Trivial to register a domain, setup Fastmail, and then download all your Gmail one-off and then ongoing. Over the next year or two, correct the email address people have.
> 1) Unexpectedly pulling an app with no warning and then imposing a 7-day review period is not reasonable. OK, my app only has tens of thousands of downloads. No, no. Don't apologize. Would you expect Google to remove twitter's app with no prior notice? How about a U.S. government app? Why should you expect different treatment from Google than Twitter et al.? Google has to provide a consistent and responsive experie…
Well, because you aren't twitter. Expecting google to treat indie dev the same as multibillion dollar corporations would be stupid. World isn't fair place and crying after fairness is often waste of time.
This kind of blog post might affect the situation and I think it makes sense to make it in polite way. However my default assumption would be that no one inside google will do anything about this, because thats how giant corporations work.
> 1) Unexpectedly pulling an app with no warning and then imposing a 7-day review period is not reasonable. OK, my app only has tens of thousands of downloads. No, no. Don't apologize. Would you expect Google to remove twitter's app with no prior notice? How about a U.S. government app? Why should you expect different treatment from Google than Twitter et al.? Google has to provide a consistent and responsive experie…
> 1) Unexpectedly pulling an app with no warning and then imposing a 7-day review period is not reasonable. OK, my app only has tens of thousands of downloads. No, no. Don't apologize. Would you expect Google to remove twitter's app with no prior notice? How about a U.S. government app? Why should you expect different treatment from Google than Twitter et al.? Google has to provide a consistent and responsive experie…
Twitter and the US government are well known and are very unlikely to turn rogue (i.e. cash out or sell the app to a shady advertising company). This base trust does not exist for a small, unknown developer.
I can see why this is a bit unfair, but having the same treatment for well-known, trusted entities and first time submitters will lead to either extreme unreliability or a flood of scams.
Meanwhile developers complain that the app store cut is too high for small devs. Heads up. If a big tech co is not going to make back money from you - the amount of careful human review by well paid folks is going to be minimal because the scale of cheap / free users is so high.
Are we expected to sympathize with an app that's siphoning off sensitive user data from phones without informing the user? Seems shady. Your main website says: * Data is never kept online * No ads, no affiliate marketers, and no creepy tracking * No phone number is required; No need to share your phone book. Only need an email address (can be masked) But your privacy policy says: * For a better experience while using…
*Data is never kept online -》 this is written next to the E2EE chat, not user accounts. E2EE msg data is not kept online
I don't employ any 3rd parties, but included that just in case. It is a word-for-word copy of a sentence in ProtonMail's privacy policy
The email address can be masked and the name and surname can be made up or left blank
As a developer, it’s mildly annoying to have to resubmit. But it’s not exactly the end of the world, is it?
I’m reasonably certain the app stores as middlemen have made life easier for small developers by several orders of magnitude. And part of the reason is that customers trust them. Being rather strict, including measures that may seem harsh to you, the developer, who knows you are a decent person, is probably unavoidable to keep the customers’ trust.