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This is ridiculous, and really a bad news for everyone as there's no way to talk with an human

Original source is unfortunately on reddit, which I can't link

news: https://libreddit.domain.glass/r/androiddev/comments/15xj0ow/dev_account_terminated_after_12_years_for/

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[–] style99@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The developer goes into the situation in a reddit thread.

I had got the same stalkerware policy. The problem was not the app itself but the description. In my case “friend” and “track” or “monitor” keyword can’t be used together.

If your app description includes “monitor” or “track”, don’t include any person related keywords such as “friend”, “people”, “human”. If not, google considers your app can monitor the somebody’s activity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/15xj0ow/dev_account_terminated_after_12_years_for/jx72w7h/

[–] IdleSheep@lemdro.id 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Google: Invests billions in AI language models

Also Google: can't understand words have different meanings

It's ridiculous how a well standing dev can just have an app removed with no warning or human investigation.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the walled garden.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google is the biggest stalker on the planet. Are they afraid of a little competition?

[–] Snowplow8861@lemmus.org -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stupid take to be honest, real people getting trafficked and stalked, domestic abuse victims being tracked for control by the abuser, and you think that's fine because google has that data about you even though nobody can use it so why shouldn't all apps be able to? Go to a women's shelter, touch grass.

This issue is far more nuanced. No it's not good Google has that data on you.

No it's not fair that automatons caused a small developer to have their entire amount destroyed without a proper review.

Both things can be true.