- #DISCONNECT PRIVACY PRO APP STORE ANDROID FOR ANDROID#
- #DISCONNECT PRIVACY PRO APP STORE ANDROID ANDROID#
The term our app allegedly violated, 4.4, and the very brief description of the reason was so vague and overly broad that every app in the Play Store, even Google’s own applications, could be alleged to be in violation! With terms like this, Google can ban any app for no good reason at all. As our small team excitedly prepared for the imminent PR launch of our mobile privacy apps for iOS and Android, our CTO Patrick Jackson received this email from Google, notifying us that they’d removed the application from the Play Store after only five days: Our part in this story began two days ago.
#DISCONNECT PRIVACY PRO APP STORE ANDROID ANDROID#
This post is really about Google’s disregard for user privacy and security, their ability to arbitrarily and unilaterally ban any app from the world’s dominant mobile operating system (78% of total smartphones run Android), and the importance of alternative Android distribution platforms that support privacy and security. This post is about more than our new app, Disconnect Mobile, being arbitrarily removed by Google from the Play Store Tuesday, five days after it went live and prior to doing any PR announcement.
#DISCONNECT PRIVACY PRO APP STORE ANDROID FOR ANDROID#
Google just banned our new Mobile Android app before it even launchedĪnother example privacy friendly alternatives for Android app distribution are critically important If you feel we have made this determination in error, you can visit this Google Play Help Center article for additional information regarding this removal.Īnd he also sent us a copy of the blog post: If your account is terminated, payments will cease and Google may recover the proceeds of any past sales and/or the cost of any associated fees (such as chargebacks and transaction fees) from you. Serious or repeated violations of any nature will result in the termination of your developer account, and investigation and possible termination of related Google accounts. Before publishing applications, please ensure your apps’ compliance with the Developer DistributionĪll violations are tracked. Once you have resolved any existing violations, you may republish the app(s) at will. This notification also serves as notice for remaining, unsuspended violations in your catalog, and you may avoid further app suspensions by immediately unpublishing any apps in violation of (but not limited to) the above policy. If your developer account is still in good standing, (and the nature of your app allows for it), you may revise and upload a policy compliant version of this application as a new package name. This particular app has been disabled as a policy strike. This violates the provision of your agreement with Google referred to above. REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.Īfter a regular review we have determined that your app interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner.
To: is a notification that your application, Disconnect Mobile, with package ID me.disconnect.mobile, has been removed from the Google Play Store. The startup's cofounder, Casey Oppenheim, sent Business Insider a copy of the email:įrom: Google Play Support Tue, at 1:46 PM Traffic has been so overwhelming since news of the blocked app broke, that Disconnect's blog website keeps going down.
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