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   Sylvia (sylvielorxu@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:39:48 JST Sylvia

   Nice, #Catima is popular enough for cloned versions with the copyright info illegally stripped and advertisement and tracking added to start appearing on the "well-moderated" #GooglePlay store.

   It's kinda hilarious to me, because the About screen also contains the privacy policy. Which means that these apps removing the About screen are already breaking Google Play policy by not having a clear privacy policy inside the app.

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     Sylvia (sylvielorxu@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:39:44 JST Sylvia

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     Unbelievable. Someone literally stole my app and removed the copyright screen and added ads, I showed clear examples and even stated that all the activity names are the exact same and Google says they "couldn't identify a violation"? Ridiculous.

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     Sylvia (sylvielorxu@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:39:46 JST Sylvia

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     Of course, I've reported the clone to Google. Not expecting much though... seeing multiple such apps on this dev's profile.

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     Takiro 🎨 (takiro@meow.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:39:52 JST Takiro 🎨

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     @SylvieLorxu I'm surprised they didn't remove your App instead.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 01:43:33 JST kaia

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     @SylvieLorxu your complain post made me realize Catima is missing from my life. thank you for making it :kaia_heart: