I haven't been aware of any services that show ads containing irresponsible material..
if they do, you should put pressure on the develops of those systems, in a public way. kris On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:50 PM, xucaen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Android development, but I was under the impression that you > should be using Google Ads, and they guarantee there will be no porn adds > from Google Ads. If you use some other Ads service, you would need to check > with them and see if they show porn ads. If they do, stop using them, > otherwise you are responsible. > > > > On Monday, August 6, 2012 1:28:19 PM UTC-4, jeka wrote: >> >> Hello. The way I read this section in the Google Play Developer Program >> Policies (GPDPP): >> >> In general, ads are considered part of your app for purposes of content >> review and compliance with the Developer Terms. Therefore all of the >> policies, including those concerning illegal activities, violence, sexually >> explicit content, and privacy violations, apply. Please take care to use >> advertising which does not violate these policies. >> >> >> >> Ads which are inconsistent with the app’s content rating also violate our >> Developer Terms. >> >> >> In combination with >> >> Sexually Explicit Material: We don't allow content that contains nudity, >> graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Google has a zero-tolerance >> policy against child pornography. If we become aware of content with child >> pornography, we will report it to the appropriate authorities and delete the >> Google Accounts of those involved with the distribution. >> >> >> >> Is that should there appear a pornographic ad in the application, the >> Google Play team will hold the developer responsible up to the point of >> terminating the entire developer account. >> >> >> >> Now here is the problem: most of us developers have no control over what >> ads appear in the apps we create. Sure, we decide which ad networks to >> include, and may even be able to control ad types to some degree, but given >> a fairly large application with even a couple hundred thousand ad >> impressions per day utilizing multiple ad networks through an ad aggregator >> makes the task of controlling this virtually impossible. >> >> I speak (write) from a personal experience. I've had users complain in the >> past about pornographic ads popping up out of "nowhere" without any user >> interaction. The thing is, the app in question only shows banner and >> requires at least a user touch to launch whatever it is the ad is pointing >> to. Not to mention that all the ads came from respectable networks / >> aggregators such as AdMob, Millennial, Greystripe, Mobclix and Mopub. They >> all said the same thing - we don't allow porn on our network(s). And yet >> there it was. It wasn't happening often enough to just be able to start an >> app and see it for myself. In fact, I've never seen one! >> >> In trying to fight this I wanted to see if I could reproduce this behavior >> myself. And yes, I can. I won't go into the details as to not give anybody >> the wrong ideas, but the bottom line is this: >> >> It is possible to load a completely innocently looking banner, which will >> then open any (ANY!) site on its own, without any user interaction. This >> will avoid detection at the ad network level. And, if it shows porn to >> specific users / locations / IPs / etc, chances are the developer will never >> see it as well. >> >> >> So, here is a very important question to Googe. If something like that >> happens - a malicious ad, that happens to bypass content control at the ad >> network, makes it into an app and the users start complaining - will you >> hold the developer responsible and just pull the account or will you work >> with the developer in trying to identify the offending ads / networks and >> resolve the situation? >> >> Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
