Google bans developers from writing “no ads” in app titles

Google Play has started not skipping apps with the words “no ads” or “no ads” in their titles. This is reported by the developers themselves on the Y Combinator website. The innovation comes after a recent change in the rules for publishing in the app store.

On “Habré” it is reported that Google previously prohibited developers from using words that affect the rating in the names of applications. These include: “# 1”, “best”, “popular”, “editor’s choice”, “new”, “free” and so on. Now, in addition to these words, “no advertising”, “no advertising” and other similar variants with the word “advertising” are prohibited.

The developer under the nickname TrianguloY explained that app developers can clarify that there is no advertising on the description page, and this information is not displayed on the search page due to indexing by name and other parameters that Google itself indicates.

In the discussion of the problem, other developers also recalled the prohibition of expressions such as “untracked” or “open source” in application names. However, Google Play does not provide users with the ability to search for applications using such filters.

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