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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 brudgers »

With rare exceptions, I read my-account-was-canceled stories and there’s something sketchy. Here it’s:

I became part of a company where we teach people to create their own applications and create their own app business.

Logically there’s nothing wrong with that. Empirically, in 2022 the reliable ways for random developers to make money by publishing apps involve gray areas at best.

I mean, what are the generically applicable methods this company teaches likely to look like?

How Google handles whack-a-mole accounts isn’t surprising.

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

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

andybak wrote: post #137
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are all platforms equally abusable?

Taking your question literally - no. Obviously not.

Right. What makes some less abusable than others? Do more of that.

You obviously can't eliminate all abuse but it can be managed to an acceptable degree with thoughtful design.

This is getting away from my larger point that the incentives here are screwed up. Why is that? Why doesn't Google fix their shit? What is blocking this from fixing itself? Usually there is an incentive like threat of lawsuit or people leaving the platform.

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

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Post by wackget »

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?

Web. Your app almost certainly doesn't actually need to be an app anyway.

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

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Post by code_duck »

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.

My concern is the hundreds of GB of photos I have saved with Google and Apple. I assume one day I will wake up and find I've lost access to them with no recourse, which means backing them up on a large hard drive is my only real option, exactly like 2010.

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

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Post by cube00 »

gregmac wrote: post #136
josephg wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

The wildcards are fantastic. I got some spam the other week, emailed the company that passed on my address (they didn't even think to remove their website name from the address) and ask for them to remove all my personal information and they couldn't even a muster a reply. Guess they weren't expecting that.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

sseneca wrote: post #139
LinAGKar wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

F-Droid?

F-Droid is a second-class citizen on billions of existing Android phones, tablets and streaming devices. Google also shows numerous scary warnings meant to trick users into believing that F-Droid is going to hack them or give them malware should they try to use it.

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

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Post by alsetmusic »

zuminator wrote: post #145

Not saying Google is in the right here by any means, but I'm a bit suspicious of these complaints where the party curiously omits the details of why they were banned, the nature of their previous earnings, etc.

> I'm a bit suspicious of these complaints where the party curiously omits the details of why they were banned

I read it as the dev had no warning or explanation.

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

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Post by whatshisface »

zuminator wrote: post #145

Not saying Google is in the right here by any means, but I'm a bit suspicious of these complaints where the party curiously omits the details of why they were banned, the nature of their previous earnings, etc.

>curiously omits the details of why they were banned

That's a difficult thing to accomplish when Google has not provided them the details of why they were banned.

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