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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by judge2020 on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:33AM (#24305327)
There is a specific exception to web browsers, so Mastodon app(s) could probably classify as one by prominently displaying the web url of a post above the post.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by danShumway on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:35AM (#24305355)
:) I wonder how this fits into the Chromium team's insistence that URLs are user-unfriendly and that browsers ought to redesign them?
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by anoncake on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:54AM (#24305603)
Unless the rule these apps actually broke is that you aren't allowed to do things that go against Google's profit interests.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by mkl on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:47AM (#24305510)
Where do we find the rules about exceptions? Are group communication apps excepted as well?

It's not obviously in the Restricted Content policy page: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/topi...

The rules there are extremely general, and technically cover all sorts of things which are currently let into the Store.

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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by headbansown on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:53PM (#24313310)
Vague policies are very useful when those making them wish to engage in arbitrary and capricious enforcement.
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