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As a small (or even medium) developer, relying on a Google Play app is very dangerous. Our app with user generated content was pulled from Google Play store, be
by cft 5y ago
As a small (or even medium) developer, relying on a Google Play app is very dangerous. Our app with user generated content was pulled from Google Play store, because they found one profile out of 36 million (!) that had a suggestive photo. They used our profile search functionality to find it, you could not get it just by scrolling profiles. We have a neural net that rejects anything resembling porn and extensive word vector based text filtering, that forbids searching for anything explicit (unlike their own Google search app). The app cost us about 1m. Appeals were rejected with template emails. The enforcement is clearly selective, because Twitter has plenty of much more explicit porn.
- Beltalowda 5y agoNever mind the tons of porn on Reddit. They did ban the OnlyFans app though. How many people use their mobile phone as their only internet device? So we now have two companies with essentially identical policies deciding what is or isn't too sexy for us with essentially zero accountability...
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoThe irony here is Google hides behind Section 230 immunity to avoid any responsibility for bad actors on its platforms (claiming it's even vital that they are so immune), but it doesn't extend that idea to entities under it.
- LgWoodenBadger 5y agoYou lost 1m (dollars, euro, pounds, ?) and only attempted to use an automated mechanism notorious for replying with “lol no” and that’s it?