smartties

> Let's just make it the end of advertising altogether, finally.

Are you ready to pay 5$/month to have access to google search, then 2$/month for hackernews, another 5$ for youtube, and then 3$ for your mail address... ? The web runs on ads

And the transactions made on the exchange ? and decentralized exchange ? Can they all be tracked and reconstructed ?

> which in practice covers basically all bans except for Age restriction or non-payment based bans.

Google avoid this EU restriction by suspending accounts/app indefinitely instead of banning them.

You can see a Google employee explaining this here : https://github.com/moneytoo/Player/issues/37#issuecomment-76...

> are already in 100% profit

If they didn't cash out, there are not profit. Bitcoin could take a 80% dump within an hour and most people would be screwed.

Thanks for this reminder that google is never to be trusted. I just bought a proton mail, I can't risk to lose access to my mails.

Yesterday at 290 000+ reviews : https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.goog...

four hours ago at 180K : https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.goog...

And now at 178K reviews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....

With more than 100k review in a day, Google must detected them as fake reviews by default.

Apple now takes a 15% fee and has a really good review process (updates are reviewed by humans within a day or two)

I see and understand your point, but I think most people would rather choose the later. Some business just can't afford to have their app suspended/users acquisitions stopped until their appeal is approved by someone at Google (and it can also takes some time). Then when you appeal, you only have 1 try. If this one appeal is denied you can say goodbye to your application forever (except if you can make enough noise on social medias[1]). Imagine knowing that each update could stop your business because a bot made a mistake. What a nightmare...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/gkvic1/podcast_add...

Would you rather have your whole app suspended indefinitely from a random google's bot decision or have a human reviewing your update and possibly rejecting it ? From my last 3 rejections on iOS, they always provided me screenshots and I could discuss with the Apple reviewers. Same story for youtube (bots everywhere...), the only Google service where I could talk to human was Google Ads.

Google's bots strike again.