Hey Guys,
I have had two people tell me that their account has been terminated by Google due to violations of Content Policy & Developer Distribution Agreement.
They were both waiting until the end of the month for other networks to come out with their new SDK. And they had promised to put SendDroid SDK in their apps as well. Because they weren’t already using SendDroid, I have no reason to believe that we were in any way, shape or form responsible for this. However, I want to know if any of you had any troubles?
My understanding was that Google had given a certain timeline before they’d take action And that timeline is not over yet.
I will ask them if they updated their apps ‘after’ the policy came out with the older SDK or is it just because they were not compliant with the new policy. It becomes more difficult with Google’s nature being ‘ban first and never ask questions’.
[i]This is the email that one of the developers got from Google
[b]This is a notification that your Google Play Publisher account has been terminated.
REASON FOR TERMINATION: Multiple violations of the Content Policy and Developer Distribution Agreement as outlined in previous emails sent to the registered email address of your Publisher account.
Please note that Google Play Publisher terminations are associated with developers, and may span multiple account registrations and related Google services. If you feel we have made an error, you can visit the Google Play Help Center article for additional information regarding this termination.
Please do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be restoring your account at this time.
The Google Play Team[/b]
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I’m not worried about developers using the SendDroid SDK because we have made all the changes necessary to be compliant. As far as I know, Leadbolt has done the same too. I don’t know about other networks. But if these two suspensions were in fact as a result of policy violation in relation to ads, then I’d be very wary of losing developers due to non-compliance of other networks.
Tell me what you make of it.
Cheers
Chandler