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POV: a few years ago you uploaded a bunch of games into Google Play that:
- are fully Free Software
- don't gather any user data
- are fully local, no ads
- are complete and finished
- don't really need updating.

One of the games was removed because of "missing privacy policy". Others - I don't even know, they didn't bother to tell me 😜 Seems like the idea that some apps may simply respect the user and not exist to mine for data is unfathomable to Google.

#googleplay #google #android

But that is the big advantage of Android verses Crapple, you don't HAVE to download from Google Pay store.
Since their current systems assumes information gathering will be done, they need you to tell them otherwise. Reasonable I think. Of course they could do away with such things entirely, but that's not going to happen.

@tudza "Telling them otherwise" is the hard part. Look at the troubles Conversations (XMPP client) is having with Google Play right now.

Also, it's not some kind of a wide net I've been caught into. Some of my other games are still available, and I see no pattern in ones that got removed (randomly over the years). And the only game I uploaded that's not FOSS and likely does some light analytics (based on Defold engine from before it went source-available) is still there.

@Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @tudza I don't understand why anyone even deals with Google Play, put it on your own website.

@Suiseiseki No, my reaction when looking at how to integrate a CMake-based NDK app with external deps into F-Droid's build system was "uhm, maybe later".

I do have an F-Droid repo with them though: dosowisko.net/fdroid/repo/ ...but there's also plenty of barely-working jam stuff in there so don't expect to be amazed 😂

On the subject of Android, anyone know a US carrier that can service a Azeyou phablet?