Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware
by tempestn on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:41PM
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In a case like that, sure. But they don't provide any information even when they want the publisher to make a change. Our Adsense account once got suspended because ads were appearing on pages that contained user-entered search keywords. Occasionally users would enter keywords that google considered 'naughty', and didn't want their ads appearing alongside. If they'd just told us that, we could have added a filter to not show ads with the list of keywords they had a problem with. Instead it was an infuriating, weeks-long process of pulling teeth to get clues as to what the problem might even be, and then making a list of every conceivably bad word we could find or imagine (admittedly that part was a bit fun) before we were finally able to get re-approved. And presumably we only got that much leeway because we were a reasonably large account.
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Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware
by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:14PM
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Now your app has a bunch of offensive language compiled into it. Surely that's grounds for nuking your account.
Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware
by Aeolun on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:37AM
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Obviously the words were hashed before being added to the codebase :P
Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware
by hrktb on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:52AM
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The subtility is they don’t actively _want_ these small publisher to do something.
It could be better if the issue is fixed, but Google’s skin in the game is small enough it doesn’t matter, and they already chose to get rid of the publisher as an efficient solution.