Post #1079028
2026-01-27 14:57 UTC
We've requested another review yesterday evening. But despite of that system being fully automated, and quite obviously no single human involved, there's still no response – 15+ hours later.
They still flag us for files which no longer exist even.
Are they incapable of running their own services properly? But then, powerful enough to decide how others have to run theirs? This is ridiculous.
Hard not to assume bad intention there.
#Google #DSA
Replies (2)
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@penguin86@social.ichibi.eu 2026-01-27 17:17
@IzzyOnDroid the reporting page is mysteriously broken...
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@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social 2026-01-28 07:24
@IzzyOnDroid We got a response now: appeal denied, listing a "malware URL" which literally 404s since we requested the appeal... I have been told to never attribute malicious intent to what can be explained by incompetence, but this level of incompetence is getting hard to explain... As a reminder, the apps in question are 100% clean, but given Google is holding almost 1300 other clean FOSS apps hostage what can we do except comply in the narrowest sense possible... Another appeal it is...