Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
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Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#2This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software.
> Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time.
Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the Play Store, but this won't be the last time I hear about Google giving no reason to terminate or de-monetize someone's account other than 'ToS violation' without pointing what was 'violated'.
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#3This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software. > Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time. Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the…
F-Droid is cool in theory, but it is largely unmaintaned and understaffed. If you upload a new build it may take weeks to get distributed to users.
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#4That's unfortunate. Luckily there's still the package in F-Droid.
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#5This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software. > Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time. Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the…
People need to stop bringing up F-Droid in response to Google supsending accounts. F-Droid does the exact same thing. If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only).
https://old.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/ceyzuz/the_fdroid_d...
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#6Ah, same old power asymmetry. I can't blame Google for power tripping; I, too, would terminate Google if I had the power to do so.
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#7This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software. > Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time. Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the…
People need to stop bringing up F-Droid in response to Google supsending accounts. F-Droid does the exact same thing . If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only). https://old.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/ceyzuz/the_fdroid_d...
>Android only
Well, so is F-Droid...
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#8This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software. > Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time. Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the…
F-Droid is cool in theory, but it is largely unmaintaned and understaffed. If you upload a new build it may take weeks to get distributed to users.
If only there was a way to support them...
https://f-droid.org/en/contribute/
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
People need to stop bringing up F-Droid in response to Google supsending accounts. F-Droid does the exact same thing . If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only). https://old.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/ceyzuz/the_fdroid_d...
>Android only Well, so is F-Droid...
I mean literally, "It's in the name"
(... and now I have EA lawyers searching for me)
Re: Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
#10This is Google (as well as YouTube) showing once again they (and their robots) do not care and ultimately, they will never change. The Play Store is evidently hostile to free and open-source software. > Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time. Meanwhile on F-Droid, they welcomed Wire, an E2EE messenger. [0] That is at least much friendlier than the…
People need to stop bringing up F-Droid in response to Google supsending accounts. F-Droid does the exact same thing . If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only). https://old.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/ceyzuz/the_fdroid_d...
> F-Droid does the exact same thing. If the distributor - whoever they are - don't like you, they will ban you. Your only option is self-hosting APKs (Android only).
Interesting. In fact, that is actually a good point. Now you put it like that, self-hosting makes EVEN more sense. Apps like Discord does it with their desktop apps and Telegram does it with their Android APKs. I completely support this.
Now. Here's a very good question:
This is one of the reasons why F-Droid banned Gab, from their own quote from [0]:
'Things like racism, sexism, verbal abuse, violent nationalist propaganda, discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, antisemitism and a lot more things become popular on such instances.'
This same reason can be applied to Telegram. So why have they not taken a 'political stance' towards removing Telegram like they have also removed Gab?