Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Reminiscent to me of Call of Duty Warzone; it has loadouts which you can give custom names (that only you see!) which are protected with a profanity filter. Comically, some of the literal names of the guns are banned as being profane, like "MP5".

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by monadic3 » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:54 PM UTC

Yup, that's about how much effort I expected them to put into their app store: absolutely nothing beyond cheap, automated heuristics. Why invest in a decent ecosystem when you're one of the two options in town?

I'm about an inch away from throwing my phone in the river and switching to a GPS-only device for navigating in my car. All the convenience a mobile device offers can't make up for the crap software experience you're forced into—literally ransoming the use of your phone through their company store.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by bzb6 » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

chovybizzass wrote: post #3

Time for a p2p app store that works on all devices.

Yes, federated and decentralised which can run Windows and SPARC applications.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by tschwimmer » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

015a wrote: post #5

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #2

I guess the Scunthorpe problem is still a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Reminiscent to me of Call of Duty Warzone; it has loadouts which you can give custom names (that only you see!) which are protected with a profanity filter. Comically, some of the literal names of the guns are banned as being profane, like "MP5".

See also Dark Souls multiplayer, in which you can see many “K***hts” running around.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by Blikkentrekker » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

So is this born from plain old moralfaggotry, or is there actually a commercial reason behind this policy?

They say sex sells, so I wonder if there actually is a reason to deny content that is “sexually gratifying”?

I find this to exist in many commercial endeavors and I wonder if there are actually sound financial reasons behind it, or whether it was similar to the strange culture shock tourists in the U.S.A. faced in the 70s, being denied a shared hotel room because they did not have the same surname. Or perhaps that too was actually for commercial reasons rather than being moral guardians?

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by ubermonkey » Mon, Jan 25, 2021, 6:55 PM UTC

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #2

I 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.