Tbh, I think this blog post is pretty content free and I'm unsure what merit other people are seeing in it. It's a fluff piece put out by the play store team to

Tbh, I think this blog post is pretty content free and I'm unsure what merit other people are seeing in it. It's a fluff piece put out by the play store team to toot their horn about the work that they've accomplished last year. I get why they'd be proud of it, but I'm not sure what actionable information the public is supposed to derive besides, "Hey, we are doing stuff." That being said, I don't think there's any intent to mislead here. The numbers could be more complete and detailed, but even if you had relative numbers (e.g. "we banned 119k, which is X% of all developer accounts") what could you do with that information? If it were 20% would that be too low? Too high? What if it were 1%? Since you don't know the ground truth fraction of spam accounts, and you don't know how well a similarly situated generic team of devs would do, I don't think there's much use you can get out of this knowledge.