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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by jacquesm »

fjabre wrote: post #74
alex_c wrote: post #39

It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…

I don't understand Google's App store play. Just another walled garden where things like this can happen. They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?

Schmidt, greed.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by dudul »

mumblemumble wrote: post #50

This tracks. One of the things that always gets me about US media is that gratuitous rape - even fairly graphic rape scenes on TV - is just fine as long it doesn't involve visible nipples.

Could it be because when it comes to nudity, the rules can be clearly defined? "No nipples" is a pretty simple rule that doesn't leave room for interpretation.

"No violent rape", "no violent murder" not so much. These are fairly subjective, and even tautological.

Not saying it's not a funny paradox, just trying to figure out why.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by jonas21 »

smartties wrote: post #61
jonas21 wrote: post #47

At least you got a reason from Google. I have an update to an iOS app that's been stuck in review for two weeks now with zero feedback from Apple other than boilerplate responses from support. This is causing me serious stress as I have no idea how long it's going to be in this state and I rely on this and another app for 100% of my income.

Would you rather have your whole app suspended indefinitely from a random google's bot decision or have a human reviewing your update and possibly rejecting it ? From my last 3 rejections on iOS, they always provided me screenshots and I could discuss with the Apple reviewers. Same story for youtube (bots everywhere...), the only Google service where I could talk to human was Google Ads.

In this case it's not an indefinite suspension. The email said exactly what he needs to do to resolve the issue.

I'd rather be in that situation because there would be something I could do to make progress, even if I didn't agree with the decision.

In my case, I have no idea how long this is going to take - and I've seen horror stories on the Apple Developer forums of people being in review for months. It's also clear that a person hasn't actually been reviewing my app for 2 weeks straight, even though its been in the "In Review" state for that long. There's just not enough functionality in the app -- and previous updates to this app have only spent an hour or two in review. Maybe it's just my personality, but waiting in limbo with no end in sight really drives me nuts.

EDIT: to be clear, neither situation is good, but if I had to pick one, I'd pick the former.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by sneak »

coldtea wrote: post #71
mumblemumble wrote: post #50

This tracks. One of the things that always gets me about US media is that gratuitous rape - even fairly graphic rape scenes on TV - is just fine as long it doesn't involve visible nipples.

Any kind of violence is fine. Sex is a sin though.

I was actually thinking about writing a blog post about one of the more culturally transgressive things Google has done lately: they stopped banning naked yoga videos on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=naked+yoga

There's absolutely nothing wrong with videos showing the human form, but people doing yoga without wearing a single thing—on YouTube—is definitely going to surprise some people. I'm honestly quite surprised that Google permits it, but I'm glad that they do.

Someone has to challenge the ridiculous American cultural taboos surrounding the human form. I think YouTube is a terrible dangerous tarpit of censorship, a sort of societal "attractive nuisance", but they should be credited with challenging ridiculous unnecessary censorship norms when they take steps in the right direction for once.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by simion314 »

aidos wrote: post #32
ubermonkey wrote: post #10

Earlier 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.

I once had a bug that I traced back to a rule (can’t remember in which part of the stack - though I think it was client controlled IIS) that was striping the “select” from the word “selected” in query string params in an attempt to thwart sql injection. From memory it was naive enough that “sselectelect” was converted nicely in the process.

I had similar issues, the software is Mod Security that some hosting companies use and some rules will empty out your POST request field if it contained text like ".... select ...from..." where the 2 keywords were paragraphs apart.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by _jal »

fjabre wrote: post #74
alex_c wrote: post #39

It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…

I don't understand Google's App store play. Just another walled garden where things like this can happen. They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?

> They were the champions of the open web for a long time.

Because that's what you say when you're the underdog.

Remember Apple's 1984 ad?

Microsoft's "a computer on every desk"?

The tech industry seems to support a rotating cast of monopolists riding atop whatever gate-keeping function emerges, each one holding on as long as it can until replaced by something that ends up looking a lot like the last top dog.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by FriendlyNormie »

alex_c wrote: post #39

It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…

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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by [deleted] »

pwdisswordfish6 wrote: post #57
MFogleman wrote: post #26

Just 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.

It’s not just Google, though. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7291

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