Publisher copies our app icon and Google Play removes us for impersonation

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/q1t8f1/chinese_publisher_copies_our_app_icon_and_google/

by veeti • 5 years ago

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blunte• 5 years ago

This lack of communication from the companies (Google in this case) is just insulting. They can afford to have humans hand these escalated issues.

And quite frankly, automated penalties (removal, ban, etc.) should be required to give specific reasons for the penalty.

If the user doesn't know what they've done wrong, chances are they'll do it wrong again unless they are told where they made a misstep.

And when the company makes a misstep and incorrectly penalizes a user, the company should admit its mistake and state how it will prevent making such a mistake again. If the company claims it is too complex, then they should not be using such a system.

Google (and other companies which use similar technologies) need to change their requirements for AI to never generate false positives.

mattrick• 5 years ago

Google should also compensate the developer who was penalized in some way to make up for this.

chuckee• 5 years ago

Lost most of our ad revenue on existing users (both Google Mobile Ads and Facebook Audience pause monetization on removed apps).

Does this mean the ads themselves were removed/blank?

mmerlin• 5 years ago

Google should implement date stamp validation as part of the vetting process for "who came first" with the entire-app name and logo cloners sucking the life out of the Play store.

Yet another reason to write web apps instead of native mobile...

rasz• 5 years ago

"Good news everyone":

"We have just received an email the appeal has been accepted and the app is available again.

...(the other app is available with the same icon)"

"(1M+ downloads) 2021 game from a Chinese publisher"

Want to guess if google will be removing Chinese game with 1M+ downloads? :)

Publisher copies our app icon and Google Play removes us for impersonation

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