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Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google

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Google banned me – open sourcing all my apps

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I'm done with Google

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Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

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Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse

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We can't check the app permissions on Google Play anymore

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Google Play bans call-recording apps

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iFixit and Google Are Launching a Genuine Pixel Parts Program

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Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”

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Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years

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Can no longer view websites on smart display

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Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell

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Closing The Portal App

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FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

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Google sunsets the APK format for new Android apps

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Google Play Dumps APKs for the More Google-Controlled “Android App Bundle”

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Dark Patterns Hall of Shame

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Let’s Encrypt DST Root CA X3 Expiration – September 2021

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Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store

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Google I/O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions

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Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"

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Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update

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Malware on My Android Phone

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Standing on our own two feet

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Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid

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GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and development has been paused

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Uncomfortable Questions About App Signing

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Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better

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Progress on /e/, the de-Googled Android fork

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Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App

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Samsung accidentally sends 'Find My Mobile' notifications to Galaxy phones

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Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silence and lack of support

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New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices

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Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival

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Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

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Hacking Voi Scooters: How I Created $100k Worth of Free Rides

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Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval

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Google shuts down its blog management tool just 10 months after launch

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Freeing My Phone from Google

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Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications

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Google terminated my developer account and started a competing business

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Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update

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Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

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Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

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Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?

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Block Ads in Apps on Android

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Android vendors, don’t kill my app

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Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

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Why I'm Ditching Android

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Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase

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Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back

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Google admits changing phone settings remotely

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Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store

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Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Google starts blocking “uncertified” Android devices from logging in

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Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops

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OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics

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Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads

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Android user locked out of Google after moving cities

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Firebase gets better analytics, crash reporting and more

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A list of all Android permissions

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Why does Google Play need constant GPS?

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Pokemon Go is a huge security risk

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'Pokémon GO' Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android

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Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps

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Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads

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Annoyed by Mobile Sites That “Ask” You to Download Their App? You’re Not Alone

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App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Include Age-Based Ratings

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Remember broken Nexus telephony? This is how Google treats it's customers

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Android: I don't need your permission

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Google Analytics iOS app

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Free Your Android

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The newest threat on the official Android market

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EA certainly isn't making it easy to give Dungeon Keeper a low rating on Android

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Issue 62938 – Barometer driver hangs and kills accelerometer on its way

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No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps

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What to Expect When Being Featured on Google Play

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Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure

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Google Glass - If I Had Glass

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Android SDK is now proprietary

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Google Play comes to Google Apps: Enterprises can distribute apps internally

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Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()

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Flash Player exits Android

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Google Play

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How to make $250 a day (and get banned from the Android Market)

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Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry.

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Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right

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Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store

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Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store

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VLC can't update on Android without giving Google private signing keys

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The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app

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An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK

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Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem

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Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

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Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?

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Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out

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