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Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by nerdponx »

germinalphrase wrote: post #119
_vdpp wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My advice - just rip the bandaid off and do it. I had anticipated taking a whole weekend to update the email address on all my accounts, but it was a lot less painful than I had anticipated. Changing over ~50 accounts took me about 3 hours all told. Most services allowed me to change my email even if it used email as the “username.” Using a password manager made this much easier, as I could easily keep track of which…

Mind sharing why you choose Fastmail over alternatives?

I didn't do a lot of shopping around, but I chose them because they appeared to have a good customer service, good pricing for single-person use, and all the features you might want like support for your own domain name, email aliases, caldav, etc. I have been a happy customer for years and all of these things turned out to be true. I have had zero reason to even consider looking elsewhere.

Also the web app is really good. Like really really good. And I don't normally like web apps.

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by LgWoodenBadger »

cft wrote: post #18

As a small (or even medium) developer, relying on a Google Play app is very dangerous. Our app with user generated content was pulled from Google Play store, because they found one profile out of 36 million (!) that had a suggestive photo. They used our profile search functionality to find it, you could not get it just by scrolling profiles. We have a neural net that rejects anything resembling porn and extensive wor…

You lost 1m (dollars, euro, pounds, ?) and only attempted to use an automated mechanism notorious for replying with “lol no” and that’s it?

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by micromacrofoot »

shadowgovt wrote: post #104
pgt wrote: post #57

I de-Googled my life over this type of event.

It's certainly indicative of why building your entire revenue stream on the good graces of a company that can shut you down at any moment is a bad strategy.

You can’t really develop a mobile app at all without running this risk

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by orangepurple »

germinalphrase wrote: post #119
_vdpp wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My advice - just rip the bandaid off and do it. I had anticipated taking a whole weekend to update the email address on all my accounts, but it was a lot less painful than I had anticipated. Changing over ~50 accounts took me about 3 hours all told. Most services allowed me to change my email even if it used email as the “username.” Using a password manager made this much easier, as I could easily keep track of which…

Mind sharing why you choose Fastmail over alternatives?

Support is helpful and responsive in the rare edge cases I have run into twice over many years when pushing their features to extremes

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by user3939382 »

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #107

Man, I really need to get off Gmail to reduce exposure to something like this, but there are sooooo many accounts to update.

Ride both horses at the same time for about a year. Setup Fastmail on a custom domain, forward your Gmail there, and as you see people emailing your Gmail, update those accounts as you get the chance.

I had a Gmail as my primary for over 10 years, did exactly this for 3 years, and now I’ll get maybe 2-3 junk notices per year to my old Gmail.

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Post by gregmac »

josephg wrote: post #115
adhesive_wombat wrote: post #107

Man, I really need to get off Gmail to reduce exposure to something like this, but there are sooooo many accounts to update.

The first step is moving to a custom domain. You can stay on gmail if you want; but set up a custom domain, and set up email on it and tell everyone to use your new email address. Once you have a custom domain, it becomes way easier to change to another email service without losing any messages.

Totally agree. I've been doing this for over a decade. I've barely used my actual Gmail address for anything. I've gone through many incarnations of email, but at some point Gmail was just a solid enough UI, had the best spam filtering, and so I switched.

Everything just forwards to my Gmail address. I have a personal domain which is also setup as an outbound address. Several other domains/addresses also forward. I also do a wildcard *@something.example.org which I use for accounts/signups (unique email per site), which lets me track who's selling my address (or is breached) and has some other security benefits.

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by andybak »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #123
andybak wrote: post #105

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> Maybe your platform shouldn't allow such abuse? They can fix their platform so this isn't possible without banning anybody. This feels more like handwaving than brainstorming ;-) It's a tricky problem and I think your suggestions should try and reflect that as much as possible.

Are all platforms equally abusable?

Taking your question literally - no. Obviously not.

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Post by epolanski »

ars wrote: post #121
throwaway684936 wrote: post #56

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Illegal to ban users? So a neo-nazi account spams, harasses, doxxes hundreds of users and spreads gore all over your platform, and you aren't allowed to shut them down unless you go through the court system first? This is one of the most absurd ideas I've ever heard.

Is the government allowed to shut them down without a court order? If not, why should you be able to? Do you feel you can do a better job? There's something to be said for not shutting down someone unless they break a law. I do acknowledge the court would need to be much faster and easier to access for these kinds of things though, you don't want to burden a provider with enormous legal bills just to deal with this k…

Platforms can have any arbitrary rule.

If I host a service for manchester city fans, why would I not be able to ban annoying united fans? Who cares if what they do is legal. What if I post NSFW content here on hn. It's not illegal so it's okay?

Just this month content creators from Russia or belarus have been banned from dozen of services, they did not violate any law.

It's ridiculous to think that yout platform isn't free to apply it's own rules.

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by sseneca »

LinAGKar wrote: post #60
davidg109 wrote: post #9

Unfortunately, anytime you depend on a third party whether it be Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc., this is the exact risk you take. Don’t feed the dragon.

What's the alternative? Google essentially has a monopoly on distributing Android apps.

F-Droid?

Re: Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income

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Post by [deleted] »

syshum wrote: post #130
shadowgovt wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The alternative is don't feed the dragon. There are already enough Android apps in the world; don't incentivize the ecosystem by building more. Build for another platform or build for something other than mobile devices.

Right I will build for iOS.... ohh wait.... Ok that is out... so what is the other platform?

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