This is ridiculous, and really a bad news for everyone as there’s no way to talk with an human
Original source is unfortunately on reddit, which I can’t link
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Original source: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/15xj0ow/dev_account_terminated_after_12_years_for/
Or libreddit mirror: https://libreddit.domain.glass/r/androiddev/comments/15xj0ow/dev_account_terminated_after_12_years_for/
Ok I put the libreddit mirror as link
Reddit should not be considered an original source.
It’s the developer’s original post.
Idiot google policy banning a 12 year old account, which doesn’t even violate its policy. Maybe something a human review could’ve helped to cross-check if it really needed a ban. Either way sucks for the dev.
I was under the impression that all of the so-called “cleaner” apps were to be avoided. I take this was one of the good ones?
Edit: re-read article, it sounds like it was one of the good ones.
Yes, unfortunately it was probably the only real cleaner on the store. Probably the google bot didn’t like that it was using accessibility controls to delete the cache of all apps (a regular app can’t do this without root, so it was simulating human action to browse app by app and click on “delete cache”)
I can confirm this has been a really good app for rooted users for years, also FOSS.
It’s just sad what Google did
