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> [...] to withhold information that would expose secret filters that you use? It makes no sense to me that these filters are such a secret. Either you are doi

> [...] to withhold information that would expose secret filters that you use? It makes no sense to me that these filters are such a secret. Either you are doing something to deceive your users or you are not. Are you advising that we should just blindly trust an opaque set of rules that a giant corporation, whose interests are not aligned with our own, can use to ban anyone with no oversight at all?

ddalex 7y ago
Play Store developers are not users - they are customers for the Play Store product. Nobody is forcing them to develop for Play Store; or to use Ad Sense or any other Google product. When you're starting your relationship, it's very clear (in the ToS) that they can reject your apps or terminate the relationship however they choose. If they would start quitting developing for Play Store because of these opaque rules, perhaps Google will listen to them. But reality shows that this problem doesn't happen often enough, so the opaque filters work as intended. So yes, I advise that, if you don't like the rules of Google, don't go play with them. It's the only thing that can change the rules of Google. (and FB, Amazon, etc).
- feanaro 7y ago
  When I said "users", I was referring to their rationale for killing off this developer's account and applications. One of the cited policies was Violation of Deceptive Behavior, which referred to users. > So yes, I advise that, if you don't like the rules of Google, don't go play with them. It's the only thing that can change the rules of Google. (and FB, Amazon, etc). If you don't like the rules (or their behaviour when supposedly applying them), you can also: 1. Criticize, explain why the behaviour is bad and spread the word about it. This is what we are doing now. 2. Regulate this kind of behaviour out of existence.

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> [...] to withhold information that would expose secret filters that you use? It makes no sense to me that these filters are such a secret. Either you are doi

by feanaro 7y ago

ddalex 7y ago
Play Store developers are not users - they are customers for the Play Store product. Nobody is forcing them to develop for Play Store; or to use Ad Sense or any other Google product. When you're starting your relationship, it's very clear (in the ToS) that they can reject your apps or terminate the relationship however they choose. If they would start quitting developing for Play Store because of these opaque rules, perhaps Google will listen to them. But reality shows that this problem doesn't happen often enough, so the opaque filters work as intended. So yes, I advise that, if you don't like the rules of Google, don't go play with them. It's the only thing that can change the rules of Google. (and FB, Amazon, etc).
- feanaro 7y ago
  When I said "users", I was referring to their rationale for killing off this developer's account and applications. One of the cited policies was Violation of Deceptive Behavior, which referred to users. > So yes, I advise that, if you don't like the rules of Google, don't go play with them. It's the only thing that can change the rules of Google. (and FB, Amazon, etc). If you don't like the rules (or their behaviour when supposedly applying them), you can also: 1. Criticize, explain why the behaviour is bad and spread the word about it. This is what we are doing now. 2. Regulate this kind of behaviour out of existence.