Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by ffhhj on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:45PM (#25907798)

Google uses blacklists of words to demonetize Youtube channels. They have similar blacklists to ban Play apps. I found it the hard way when they removed my video recording app after I simply added "spy cam" in the list of features.

Lesson of life learned, so I implemented ways to keep in contact with my users in case of sudden ban and ask them to move to a new app or another channel.

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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by duskwuff on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:10PM (#25910728)

That's explicitly a violation of Google's Play Store Policies:

> Apps must not present themselves as a spying or secret surveillance solution.

If your application could be accurately described as a "spy cam", it's likely that you were already in violation of their stalkerware policies.

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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by ffhhj on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:05PM (#25921045)

That's correct, but my app didn't have any specific feature that makes it a "spy cam", it's just a funny feature, indeed you can use any video recording app as a "spy cam". So according to Google the difference between one and the other is mentioning those words. That shows how their automatic ban system works.

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