Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
Can we sue Google when they do things like this? No single entity should wield this much power. And we should rewrite the laws to make this so.<p>Google and Apple <i>wanted</i> to be in the role of gatekeeper, so they should be beholden to the apps on their platform. We had a web where developers were in control of their own deployment. Everything was decentralized and required responsibility and diligence.<p>Now the power is out of our hands and its unfair. It isn't our choice.<p>One might argue this is better for consumers, but I honestly don't think so. Technology could have fixed discoverability and provided sandboxing, networks could provide curation. And there would probably be better privacy in the world where Mozilla won instead of Google.<p>Edit: I am so happy that GDPR and CDPA have arrived to protect consumers. We need similar laws to protect startups, small businesses, and sole proprietors that rely on these platforms to treat us fairly. They owe us that after haven taken away the nice open web we once had. Maybe laws are how we get back the web we lost.