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I'm going to open a grocery store and hire an army of management staff, but I'll outsource trivial matters like deciding what products to sell to a third party

I'm going to open a grocery store and hire an army of management staff, but I'll outsource trivial matters like deciding what products to sell to a third party sweatshop. If any of the products get someone sick I'll point to the terms of service, shrug my shoulders and say "algorithms".

UncleMeat 5y ago
This one isn't black box algorithms behaving badly. You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't. There are definitely cases where an app is taken down for mystery reasons and Google basically cannot explain why but this isn't one of them.
- onion2k 5y ago
  You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't. Briar has more than 500k installs according to its Google Play page. Why do Google need to remove the app entirely if they've previously accepted and published it? I can understand not allowing an update without the proper review process using a working account, but what's the reasoning behind removing the old version that Google allowed just because they can't review an update? That makes no sense.
  - matwood 5y ago
    Exactly. Unless the app is malicious, Apple tends to force changes during an update. Google appears to have turned on some algorithms in the last couple weeks, and is pulling apps down without warning. Then, this new review process appears to be really poorly run which makes it hard to get the app back in the store. Also, the developer console itself keeps getting redesigned making it hard to find where to put these new bits of information.
- rakoo 5y ago
  > You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't. Briar has no registration process. Pick any username and password and you're good to go. Google's process is probably not used to apps that aren't centralized with a single, third-party service delivering the golden with ticket
grey_earthling 5y ago
You could call it “Amazon”.
- ddtaylor 5y ago
  Don't forget to install the sally port.

UncleMeat 5y ago

This one isn't black box algorithms behaving badly. You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't. There are definitely cases where an app is taken down for mystery reasons and Google basically cannot explain why but this isn't one of them.

onion2k 5y ago
You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't. Briar has more than 500k installs according to its Google Play page. Why do Google need to remove the app entirely if they've previously accepted and published it? I can understand not allowing an update without the proper review process using a working account, but what's the reasoning behind removing the old version that Google allowed just because they can't review an update? That makes no sense.
- matwood 5y ago
  Exactly. Unless the app is malicious, Apple tends to force changes during an update. Google appears to have turned on some algorithms in the last couple weeks, and is pulling apps down without warning. Then, this new review process appears to be really poorly run which makes it hard to get the app back in the store. Also, the developer console itself keeps getting redesigned making it hard to find where to put these new bits of information.
rakoo 5y ago
> You have to supply Play with a working test account for the review process. They didn't. Briar has no registration process. Pick any username and password and you're good to go. Google's process is probably not used to apps that aren't centralized with a single, third-party service delivering the golden with ticket

grey_earthling 5y ago

You could call it “Amazon”.

ddtaylor 5y ago
Don't forget to install the sally port.