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Developer: "Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store because they think we are uploading the user’s contact list. We don’t." and "To be

Developer: "Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store because they think we are uploading the user’s contact list. We don’t." and "To be clear: They didn’t just reject an update. They outright removed the app entirely. Otherwise my plan B would have been to remove the contacts permission which is used to display the name and profile picture locally if the XMPP address matches an entry in the users address book."

HeckFeck 3y ago
Never fear, I'm sure someone from Google support will be only too happy to help.
- miroljub 3y ago
  > Never fear, I'm sure someone from Google support will be only too happy to help. /s * *) For that one person that thinks this is not a sarcasm.
carstenhag 3y ago
Talk with Google, usually this stuff can be resolved. Their bots flag stuff because of reasons. Yes, sometimes it's BS, but often there's something that you have missed to clarify.
- axelthegerman 3y ago
  Lol this must be a bigger joke than the app being removed in the first place. I never heard of anyone who was able to talk to anyone at Google. HN is full of folks getting apps suspended, locked out of their Google account and so on... Not being able to talk to someone is sometimes actually the only problem (though we all know the app store has much more issues than just that)
  - carstenhag 3y ago
    I also really like to joke about Google Play and their policies. But: Often it does help to simply write them! Yesterday at 16:56 our update got rejected, at 17:51 I submitted an appeal and at 18:33 they accepted the appeal and the update got approved. https://i.imgur.com/a5L8D9g.png https://i.imgur.com/a5L8D9g.png
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    If you have an ads account they cold call you and email you constantly lol. Can they help me get back into my gmail account that I have the username/password/recovery email for? No.
- HumblyTossed 3y ago
  If only there was a real person at Google to talk to. The only way to sometimes get stuff like this resolved is to make the front page of HN, Twitter, etc.
feitingen 3y ago
That's a bit funny since i get notifications on my phone from google assistant (which I've disabled) about birthdays of my contacts, and I've explicitly disabled contacts access for all google apps on my phone. Feels like a slap in the face every time.
- PurpleRamen 3y ago
  My guess, the contacts are synced to the cloud, and the message came from Gmail or the Google Contact-Webservice and Assistant is just the icon in the middle.
petters 3y ago
I wonder why Truecaller is allowed then? It builds a database of users’ contacts. Probably in violation of GDPR but they have a constitutional exception for that in Sweden (“utgivningsbevis”).

HeckFeck 3y ago

Never fear, I'm sure someone from Google support will be only too happy to help.

miroljub 3y ago
> Never fear, I'm sure someone from Google support will be only too happy to help. /s * *) For that one person that thinks this is not a sarcasm.

carstenhag 3y ago

Talk with Google, usually this stuff can be resolved. Their bots flag stuff because of reasons. Yes, sometimes it's BS, but often there's something that you have missed to clarify.

axelthegerman 3y ago
Lol this must be a bigger joke than the app being removed in the first place. I never heard of anyone who was able to talk to anyone at Google. HN is full of folks getting apps suspended, locked out of their Google account and so on... Not being able to talk to someone is sometimes actually the only problem (though we all know the app store has much more issues than just that)
- carstenhag 3y ago
  I also really like to joke about Google Play and their policies. But: Often it does help to simply write them! Yesterday at 16:56 our update got rejected, at 17:51 I submitted an appeal and at 18:33 they accepted the appeal and the update got approved. https://i.imgur.com/a5L8D9g.png https://i.imgur.com/a5L8D9g.png
- qingcharles 3y ago
  If you have an ads account they cold call you and email you constantly lol. Can they help me get back into my gmail account that I have the username/password/recovery email for? No.
HumblyTossed 3y ago
If only there was a real person at Google to talk to. The only way to sometimes get stuff like this resolved is to make the front page of HN, Twitter, etc.

feitingen 3y ago

That's a bit funny since i get notifications on my phone from google assistant (which I've disabled) about birthdays of my contacts, and I've explicitly disabled contacts access for all google apps on my phone. Feels like a slap in the face every time.

PurpleRamen 3y ago
My guess, the contacts are synced to the cloud, and the message came from Gmail or the Google Contact-Webservice and Assistant is just the icon in the middle.

petters 3y ago

I wonder why Truecaller is allowed then? It builds a database of users’ contacts. Probably in violation of GDPR but they have a constitutional exception for that in Sweden (“utgivningsbevis”).