Malware and behavioral transparency caused by the developer’s own mistakes will no longer easily lead to account termination

This is Gogplay. Google Play’s malware, mobile junk software, behavioral transparency and other related issues should be familiar to everyone. Last year (that is, 2023), once the content involved in this copywriting, the developer account will definitely be terminated. You will first receive an email that the app has been removed, and then simultaneously receive an email that the developer account has been terminated and removed. As shown below

For articles about malware, we have published some related content before, the link is as follows:

Reasons for account termination after Google Play application submission for review: Are malware, mobile junk software and behavioral transparency misjudgments?

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As the situation develops to September 2024, minor malware, behavioral transparency and other issues will no longer easily lead to account termination, which will be good news for many novices. According to Dunang’s data, many developers who were hit with malware and other problems were “passive violations”, often because of some mistakes made by some developers in the process of developing and packaging applications (some are even low-level mistakes). Google Play also judged that these developers’ violations of the rules were not intentional, so they made an exception and did not terminate the account. After the malware was removed due to code problems, only the application was suspended, and the developer account was normal, as shown in the figure below.

If the application was removed because of malware caused by minor, low-harmful errors, the appeal has a certain probability of success.

The first is to fill in the appeal form, wait for a few days to dozens of days (usually 2-7 days), and directly receive a reply to the appeal result, prompting that the appeal failed, and let us fix the violation of the application.

The second is that after filling in the appeal form, the account was terminated and removed while waiting for the appeal result.

The third: After filling in the appeal form, you receive a reply and are asked to fill in the application survey form. After filling in the application survey, enter the investigation of the Google Content Policy Team (this process is very long). If it is indeed an accidental violation and the behavior is minor, there is a certain probability that the application can be restored, of course, there is also a failure result. It depends on luck. The application survey form is as shown below.

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