One issue I’ve read that devs of good, no-nonsense, telemetry-free offline-only/first apps face on the Play Store is that they get review-bombed and reported by their less scrupulous counterparts to drive more users to their ad-filled, IAP-heavy, or borderline malicious apps.
This could be fixed pretty easily if Google took fraudulent reviews more seriously and their handling of reports were less automated and opaque, but they haven’t shown much interest in either.
This could be fixed pretty easily if Google took fraudulent reviews more seriously and their handling of reports were less automated and opaque, but they haven’t shown much interest in either.