Google Play will ban apps with pornographic and misleading advertising
It seems that Google are willing to clean up their applications store And it is that during the past week they have updated their Google Play Developer Program Policies Or what is the same, the regulations governing the contents of the applications, games and tools published in thisOn-line shopSome changes that are noticeable above all in issues related to , and that want to avoid abuse and create a much more respectable image of the platform Android
With this, developers must monitor and ensure that their applications respect these rules if they want to continue to be available on Google Play And it is that some of the new prescriptions are quite exhaustive, leading to the disappearance of the tool if they are exceeded. New guidelines that aim above all at control of advertisements, trying to avoid some abuses such as imitating functions of the applications themselves to protect the user, in addition to limiting the pornographic content
Most of the innovations in these policies are included in the section Promotion of applications Here it is stated that the applications published inGoogle Play may not participate in promotions through misleading websites, other applications or properties such as notifications and system alerts.Likewise, they cannot be promoted for content that redirects to Google Play without prior notice to the user or through unsolicited SMS With this, we want to avoid deceiving users so that they do not download applications without their consent and knowledge of what they are doing after being alerted by notifications or messages that pretend to come from the system, mobile phone or the Internet when They are mere advertisements. Along with this, in addition, it is now prohibited that the ads introduced in the applications imulate the style or some function of the applicationso that the user does not get confused.
Other changes that these policies have undergone is the restriction of applications when using the SMS function of the terminal And it is that Explicit consent must now be given before tools can autonomously read or send text messages.In addition, in Google they have become more serious with pornography and sexual content of the applications. So much so that now prohibited those tools that present erotic and explicit content either in part of the content, the icon of the application, its title or even its description
Finally, the accent has also been placed on in-application purchases An issue that seems to have caused more than one pain upside down in Google following the recent class action lawsuit filed by a group of disgruntled parents in the US Thus, developers must make it clear that their applications have these processes inside.
With all this Google wants to avoid some abuses and clean up the image of Google Play , where not everything goes.And it is that despite the creative freedom, following some basic principles can help create a more useful, respectful application store with all kinds of users and with tools that do not deceive or abuse For the moment Google is notifying the developers of all these changes by email, giving them a couple of weeks to modify everything that is necessary if they want to avoid their disappearance in Google Play
