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Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Post by DelightOne »

naniwaduni wrote: post #75
Dayshine wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further, does this mean once banned, I could maliciously join organisations to get them shut down? Perhaps Pablo should get a job with a high profile but small on tech company (maybe a bank?) and watch Google change their policies immediately.

If that were the case, you might find yourself having a hard time joining organisations that care about this. It'd be something of a liability.

How does one check for this? Showing you currently have an app on the AppStore which is older than a few months?

Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Post by shakna »

yellowapple wrote: post #84
n_e wrote: post #32

What I found the most infuriating is this: > We recommend that you use an alternative method for distributing your apps in the future. There is no reasonable alternative method for distributing commercial apps on android. The app store is a monopoly.

There's always F-Droid (+ a custom repo if you're unable to FOSSify your app) or Amazon's app store. Those may or may not be "reasonable" for everyone (in particular since they're not typically preinstalled on phones), but it's a start.

That's only reasonable if the _target audience_ is likely to make use of F-Droid.

If your target audience will only use Play, then the only reasonable target store _is_ Play.

I'm in the F-Droid target audience, so you could target me.

However, as they appear to be publishing transport/mapping tools for Spain... It's unlikely they can reach their target audience any more.

Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Post by viewpoint92 »

Am from India ....This newYear2019 goes very difficult to me...Because same email am also received about the Google Play console account termination ...if some buddy has answer for that please reply me...am waiting for you all answer.

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Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Post by steve_taylor »

sideshowb wrote: post #62
zenexer wrote: post #39

For those of you wondering, it appears that the company mentioned in the article, GreenLionSoft [1], develops apps that show public transportation schedules in Spain, at least as of 2017 [2]. Their Google Play page still exists in some places but has been cleared of all apps [3]. I can't find Pablo A. Martinez's personal developer account; the closest match is com.pablomartinez, which belongs (belonged?) to a law for…

Perhaps they consider this sort of app a direct competitor to Google maps?

Google has been caught banning AdSense accounts to avoid paying website ownsers. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were found to be banning developers of apps that take eyeballs away from Google services.

Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

#105

Post by Induane »

parrellel wrote: post #98
Induane wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if Google (and most large companies) has PR employees whose job it is to flag stuff like this.

You wonder? I thought that was just common knowledge?

I guess I hate to beso cynical but.. yea I kinda figured :-/

Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Post by pamartineza »

Hi Zenexer,

I just get aware of the existence of this thread.

I still don't know if our "GreenLionSoft" account is going to be reinstantiated but I've got more info from the review team.

Our company account hasn't violated any policy but it was "associated" with my personal account that hadn't violated any policy but was "associated" to a third account from which I had console access in the past and that was terminated due "IP violation and Trademark" months before personal mine. The owner of this account appealed denying any IP violation but was ignored and the termination cascaded from one account to another.

The point here is not whether this first termination was fair or not, the point is that now anybody that shares wifi, hardware or console access with anybody that suffers a termination will be terminated too.

It is quite usual that developers working for a start-up, have also their own personal GP account just for publishing their pet projects or just testing new API's or features. If any of your employees while or before working for you have their account terminated the company account risks to be terminated too.

I have now sent back to the review team extra info to demonstrate that my personal account and company accounts were not created to impersonate this terminated account, nor republish any suspended app.

Still waiting an answer...

Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

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Post by pamartineza »

zenexer wrote: post #39

For those of you wondering, it appears that the company mentioned in the article, GreenLionSoft [1], develops apps that show public transportation schedules in Spain, at least as of 2017 [2]. Their Google Play page still exists in some places but has been cleared of all apps [3]. I can't find Pablo A. Martinez's personal developer account; the closest match is com.pablomartinez, which belongs (belonged?) to a law for…

Hi Zenexer, I just get aware of the existence of this thread.

I still don't know if our "GreenLionSoft" account is going to be reinstantiated but I've got more info from the review team.

Our company account hasn't violated any policy but it was "associated" with my personal account that hadn't violated any policy but was "associated" to a third account from which I had console access in the past and that was terminated due "IP violation and Trademark" months before personal mine. The owner of this account appealed denying any IP violation but was ignored and the termination cascaded from one account to another.

The point here is not whether this first termination was fair or not, the point is that now anybody that shares wifi, hardware or console access with anybody that suffers a termination will be terminated too.

It is quite usual that developers working for a start-up, have also their own personal GP account just for publishing their pet projects or just testing new API's or features. If any of your employees while or before working for you have their account terminated the company account risks to be terminated too.

I have now sent back to the review team extra info to demonstrate that my personal account and company accounts were not created to impersonate this terminated account, nor republish any suspended app.

Still waiting an answer...

Re: Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

#108

Post by pamartineza »

pamartineza wrote: post #107
zenexer wrote: post #39

For those of you wondering, it appears that the company mentioned in the article, GreenLionSoft [1], develops apps that show public transportation schedules in Spain, at least as of 2017 [2]. Their Google Play page still exists in some places but has been cleared of all apps [3]. I can't find Pablo A. Martinez's personal developer account; the closest match is com.pablomartinez, which belongs (belonged?) to a law for…

Hi Zenexer, I just get aware of the existence of this thread. I still don't know if our "GreenLionSoft" account is going to be reinstantiated but I've got more info from the review team. Our company account hasn't violated any policy but it was "associated" with my personal account that hadn't violated any policy but was "associated" to a third account from which I had console access in the past and that was terminat…

I just wanted to share with you that Google has finally reinstantiated our account, 23 days after our suspension.
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