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Fuck Android Developer Verification Program

335 points · 139 comments · 0xcrypto

  1. bramhaag · · focus · HN ↗
    My account got closed for inactivity while I had multiple apps published. Google does not understand the concept of a finished app apparently, and requires you to continuously push updates or else you permanently lose your account with no way of reopening it.
    1. realharo · · focus · HN ↗
      I have just one app I published way back in 2014 or so, and I think there were only 2 updates (only counting changes that required uploading new builds) since then that were like "do this or we're taking the app down".

      One of them was requiring a privacy policy, even for a fully offline game that doesn't even have the internet permission. The other one was having to update the target platform version if I remember correctly.

      1. WA · · focus · HN ↗
        Target platform must be updated every year now in August. They started doing this a couple years ago.
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