So this is the power of machine learning, huh? Just as shit as the old keyword blacklists of old.
Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
#22Well luckily this is Google. Which means there are no real human behind the suspension, most likely just an Automated response before some one steps in. ( Or not )
I would be furious if this was coming from Apple. And judging from the current Apple I would not be surprised if they will tell you to not use the "ASS" label in your support format.
Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
#23Time for a p2p app store that works on all devices.
Right so when you have some childporn showing up, illegal material what are you going to do?
Contact the police so they can arrest the poster?
Also, maintain a public denylist of packages with an transparent process for overriding or correcting the list?
Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
#24ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting.
You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y
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#26Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review.
"King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play.
Got it.
Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
#27I guess the Scunthorpe problem is still a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I'm just agog that people are still doing dumb pattern matching for profanity filters. I just assumed that YEARS AGO people realized how dumb it is, but apparently: No.
Not super relevant or anything but I just can't help but share my favorite profanity filter story, so here you go.
I worked at a place that had a profanity filter in two parts.
The first part was in C, several pages of if (!strcmp(x, a)) return 0;
After all that, it then invokes popen() to ssh to another machine and run a shell script there, which contains several more pages of string comparisons, this time in shell.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just agog that people are still doing dumb pattern matching for profanity filters. I just assumed that YEARS AGO people realized how dumb it is, but apparently: No.
This is Google. It's probably very smart pattern matching for profanity. The neural network may have taken millions of core-hours to learn to be as dumb (here) as a blind keyword search.
We had to give up our privacy to create a highly sophisticated technology that doesn't even work half of the time. I love the future, it was totally worth it.
Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
#30I guess the Scunthorpe problem is still a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
A long time ago, I saw a guy unable to post on a corporate blog of his own team. Turned out that his name was flagged by a filter.
What made this particularly egregious is that the name in question: "Hui" - wasn't even a swear word in either his own native language - Chinese - nor in English. But it closely resembles a Russian profanity. Turned out that the filter was "multilingual", and applied rules for all languages to all posts...