the first link ain't right.
Thank you !!!ok, did my part (signing the petition)
Guys, Google does not deprive you of liberty. An independent developer pays taxes and has a tax ID.
He is used to communicate his address to his clients. He has a website that mentions this address. This new measure may offend those who sold illegally only.
Guys, Google does not deprive you of liberty. An independent developer pays taxes and has a tax ID.
He is used to communicate his address to his clients. He has a website that mentions this address. This new measure may offend those who sold illegally only.
What really bothers me is not to communicate my physical address to the rare persons that buy my app on the Google Play store. I contract with them and I find normal they get all details about the vendor. It is to expose publicly an information that can be collected by robots for spam companies (name them as you wish) and to let everybody know where my family lives (I'm not alone at home). As an independent worker, you can have a PO Box for your professional address; it's not allowed on the Play Store. Apart the fact that I had to suffer in 2000 from being easy to find in the phone book (now je suis sur liste rouge et orange), my main reason to disagree with this new policy is this modern idea, clearly expressed in interviews by the Google or Facebook founders, that our privacy is now something from the past. What the next step will be? The obligation to provide a passport photo of the developper(s) on the Play Store page?Guys, Google does not deprive you of liberty. An independent developer pays taxes and has a tax ID.
He is used to communicate his address to his clients. He has a website that mentions this address. This new measure may offend those who sold illegally only.
What the next step will be? The obligation to provide a passport photo of the developper(s) on the Play Store page?
You could use my business address if you wishWhat really bothers me is not to communicate my physical address to the rare persons that buy my app on the Google Play store.
I would be stupid to use the address of someone else while I can create a completely fake company, with a fake address and phone number. Google does not check these informations. It does not even ask for a company registration number, which is mandatory in a lot of countries, like ours (except for "auto-entrepreneurs"). Publishing an address won't guarantee anything. And note that most of indie developpers on the Play Store are not professionals. They do not understand the reason to expose a data that they consider as private. It's not because they declare or not their income (if any) to their tax administration. In France, for low amounts and occasional sales, it exists a tolerance; for example, the Paypal account has not to be declared if there's less than 10000 euros on it (reference). French indie developpers that earn more than 10000 euros a year on the Android market are probably a handful. To publish on the Play store, the only illegal thing that they do is to say that they're a company while they're not.You could use my business address if you wish
In fact I do agree about the fact and in the same time I do not agree about the moto.I would be stupid to use the address ofsomeone else while I can create a completely fake company, with a fake address and phone number
In my opinion Google wants for the indie to provide what installed devs already provide : support, pay taxes, responsability to the end customers.
You even can take an address where phone calls are replied and the postman can deliver letters. Not a fake company : a company that can be contacted and responsible of the apps for the end customers.
Am sorry, again I can not agree. Their support for paid products is excellent: quick and polite.Google is known to provide a very bad support (in fact, I don't even think they have a support team for their products).
Paid products? Out of curiosity, which ones?Am sorry, again I can not agree. Their support for paid products is excellent: quick and polite.
We do not speak about the same experiences.
A physical address is for the end customer the guarantee to have a way to be listened and provided what he has paid for.
In fact I do agree about the fact and in the same time I do not agree about the moto.
In my opinion Google wants for the indie to provide what installed devs already provide : support, pay taxes, responsability to the end customers.
You even can take an address where phone calls are replied and the postman can deliver letters. Not a fake company : a company that can be contacted and responsible of the apps for the end customers.
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