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Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #267
antihipocrat wrote: post #198

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That argument could be, and has been, used to justify some terrible actions by governments and corporations. While we may never know the full story in this specific case. What we do know for certain is that Google has a history of pulling the pin on services and products used by customers. Google's lack of customer support is also a well known feature of the company. These two facts suggest that the situation describ…

Are you actually a customer? Are you paying for the services?

That question, and it's answer, have no bearing on the post it is replying to.

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Post by lupire »

SergeAx wrote: post #207

There is an ongoing meme series with that guy with stone face who mocks stupid social media lifehacks. Let me be that guy for a moment: Always create new Google account for your new project. Use that account for related Google Cloud, GMail, Google Play and all the SSOs into third-party services like Github/Gitlab, cloud CI/CD, hosting and so on. Just add your personal account as a collaborator to those services for c…

> Just add your personal account as a collaborator to those services for convenience.

Congratulations, you've linked the accounts so Google can can them all together.

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Post by lupire »

matkoniecz wrote: post #170
franga2000 wrote: post #152

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Because people won't pay, especially not on Google Play. Even if people do buy it and it's mildly successful, a company from a country where work costs less will clone it and offer it for free with ads - and no price can compete with free.

And in turn people are unwilling to pay for fairly good reasons. I decided to pay for one of app with premium features (my the first payment in Google Play). What happened? App was "redesigned" two weeks later with features that I paid for removed. What caused me to not pay for anything else, why I will gladly pay for software which I can download and keep running even if new version is crippled. For example yesterda…

So you'd prefer I pay a subscription fee, so you can stop paying when the product goes bad?

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nextlevelwizard wrote: post #269
skinkestek wrote: post #180

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> Youtube is still the king of video no matter how you slice it. For now. Rumble might or might not break through to mainstream. Same with those fediverse solutions for different reasons. Vimeo already works beautifully and is clean in every way AFAIK.

>Rumble I've never heard about it before now >fediverse solutions The what? >Vimeo already works beautifully Except you can't monetize your content and in fact you have to pay to post in the first place plus you can't post (at least) gaming related content.

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Post by jannes »

andi999 wrote: post #242
wwn_se wrote: post #212

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If you are just paying a couple of $100 a month for app related stuff you can just use a new bank if you want and just transfer the amount needed each month. Opening accounts is something banks really like when you do so its usually not hard.

Don't you have to name the account after a real or legal person?

I think you are looking for the term 'legal entity' instead of 'legal person'.

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Post by callmeal »

dfabulich wrote: post #19
CGamesPlay wrote: post #7

I'd extend this even further: never use a single account for more than one purpose. Create a separate account at the same company for the other purpose. Some examples: - Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. - Nothing tied to your consumer accounts should be used for anything business related. - Your Amazon shopping account and your AWS account should defin…

(Author here.) This is excellent advice for consumer apps/products, (it's especially important to keep enterprise accounts fully separate from your individual consumer accounts), but it wouldn't have helped DroidScript in this case. DroidScript is a non-profit organization; when they signed up for Google AdMob and Google Play Store, they provided the same tax ID (their EIN) in both cases. Creating separate Google acc…

>Creating a subsidiary business for every type of Google account you have would be quite expensive,

Do you really have to create a separate subsidary business? Why not just get another EIN for the account? Then as far as the online service is concerned, that will be another taxpayer id, unlinked to the original one. The IRS does have limitations[0] (you can only apply for one EIN per day), but as far as I could tell, there is no limit to the number of EINs you can get for your company.

In fact, I would argue that if you are a self-employed person, you should get an EIN and use it when creating accounts at any SAAS that require a social security number.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

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Post by skinkestek »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #269
skinkestek wrote: post #180

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> Youtube is still the king of video no matter how you slice it. For now. Rumble might or might not break through to mainstream. Same with those fediverse solutions for different reasons. Vimeo already works beautifully and is clean in every way AFAIK.

>Rumble I've never heard about it before now >fediverse solutions The what? >Vimeo already works beautifully Except you can't monetize your content and in fact you have to pay to post in the first place plus you can't post (at least) gaming related content.

>>Rumble

> I've never heard about it before now

Congratulations! You are one of todays 10000 lucky :-)

>>fediverse solutions

> The what?

Peertube for example.

>>Vimeo already works beautifully

> Except you can't monetize your content and in fact you have to pay to post in the first place plus you can't post (at least) gaming related content.

Proof that you can: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/effectivejavaee

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Post by skinkestek »

lanterk wrote: post #196
skinkestek wrote: post #180

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> Youtube is still the king of video no matter how you slice it. For now. Rumble might or might not break through to mainstream. Same with those fediverse solutions for different reasons. Vimeo already works beautifully and is clean in every way AFAIK.

Except Vimeo is not really competing with YouTube, and has a strict restrictions on the type of videos it accepts.

Vimeo competes in one segment.

Rumble in another.

Peertube etc in a third.

Self-hosting by media companies in a fourth.

Etc.

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Post by ectopod »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #279
lbriner wrote: post #273

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For small company accounts in the UK, you can file them yourself. It is not completely easy depending on what you are doing but well within the ability of an engineer, as long as you are keeping the relevant receipts etc. For me, running a company was never expensive, just hassle like sending your annual update to Companies House and understanding the various overlapping communications from HMRC for tax.

Interesting - I thought all companies had to file electronically with tagged accounts - ie you need some level of an accountant.

You can file them online yourself.

https://www.gov.uk/file-your-company-accounts-and-tax-return

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