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XScreenSaver for Android • Privacy Policy (2024)

1 pointsby pmarin3 months ago

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pmarin3 months ago
Archive.org because jwz doesn&#x27;t like HN.<p>He updated it later on:<p>&quot;Update: On June 8th, 2024, I submitted this privacy policy to Google, and on June 10th, they accepted it. I take this to mean that they found it to be 100% factual and endorse it entirely. XScreenSaver was restored to the &quot;Play&quot; [sic] store, and people were able to again downloaded and enjoy it freely.<p>But then!<p>Barely 6 weeks later, on July 24th, 2024, Google instituted yet another new policy: basically they told me that if I didn&#x27;t give them a sample of my blood a copy of my driver&#x27;s license, they would remove XScreenSaver from the &quot;Play&quot; [sic] store, again.<p>Obviously that&#x27;s never going to happen. Do I, the person who wrote the above list cataloging Google&#x27;s various predations, seem like the sort of person who would willingly give Google my private details? On purpose? I do not think so.<p>Having distributed XScreenSaver for over a decade to I-don&#x27;t-even-know-how-many users (I actually don&#x27;t know, I never looked) Google suddenly decided that it was a huge problem that they don&#x27;t have a lock of my hair.<p>Since I enjoy wasting the time and money of multinational superpredators, I spent a few weeks going back and forth with what passes for developer &quot;support&quot; over there. You can read about it over on my blog. Eventually they just started ignoring my emails, and in November 2024, XScreenSaver was again de-listed from the Google &quot;Play&quot; [sic] store, presumably this time for good.<p>However, we can take solace in the fact that Google endorsed the above privacy policy, and found no fault with it whatsoever.&quot;