Good luck getting an answer on here... Let me know how it works out for you.
Thanks, Justin Anderson MagouyaWare Developer http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, jeka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. The way I read this section in the Google Play Developer Program > Policies (GPDPP): > > In general, ads are considered part of your app for purposes of content > review and compliance with the Developer Terms. Therefore all of the > policies, including those concerning illegal activities, violence, sexually > explicit content, and privacy violations, apply. Please take care to use > advertising which does not violate these policies. > > > > Ads which are inconsistent with the app’s content rating also violate our > Developer Terms. > > > In combination with > > *Sexually Explicit Material:* We don't allow content that contains > nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Google has a > zero-tolerance policy against child pornography. If we become aware of > content with child pornography, we will report it to the appropriate > authorities and delete the Google Accounts of those involved with the > distribution. > > > > Is that should there appear a pornographic ad in the application, the > Google Play team will hold the developer responsible up to the point of > terminating the entire developer account. > > > > Now here is the problem: most of us developers have no control over what > ads appear in the apps we create. Sure, we decide which ad networks to > include, and may even be able to control ad types to some degree, but given > a fairly large application with even a couple hundred thousand ad > impressions per day utilizing multiple ad networks through an ad aggregator > makes the task of controlling this virtually impossible. > > I speak (write) from a personal experience. I've had users complain in the > past about pornographic ads popping up out of "nowhere" without any user > interaction. The thing is, the app in question only shows banner and > requires at least a user touch to launch whatever it is the ad is pointing > to. Not to mention that all the ads came from respectable networks / > aggregators such as AdMob, Millennial, Greystripe, Mobclix and Mopub. They > all said the same thing - we don't allow porn on our network(s). And yet > there it was. It wasn't happening often enough to just be able to start an > app and see it for myself. In fact, I've never seen one! > > In trying to fight this I wanted to see if I could reproduce this behavior > myself. And yes, I can. I won't go into the details as to not give anybody > the wrong ideas, but the bottom line is this: > > It is possible to load a completely innocently looking banner, which will > then open any (ANY!) site on its own, without any user interaction. This > will avoid detection at the ad network level. And, if it shows porn to > specific users / locations / IPs / etc, chances are the developer will > never see it as well. > > > So, here is a very important question to Googe. If something like that > happens - a malicious ad, that happens to bypass content control at the ad > network, makes it into an app and the users start complaining - will you > hold the developer responsible and just pull the account or will you work > with the developer in trying to identify the offending ads / networks and > resolve the situation? > > Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
