This is not an exaggeration. You can find many reports of independent open source developers having their apps randomly flagged for no coherent reason.

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/9/6/why-my-apps-will-soon-be-gone-from-google-play/

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This is not an exaggeration. You can find many reports of independent open source developers having their apps randomly flagged for no coherent reason.
Here are some examples:
https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/9/6/why-my-apps-will-soon-be-gone-from-google-play/
[Conversations](https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929074071688694)
[Quicksy](https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111923502625498287)
[iA Writer](https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite)
[Fairemail](https://xdaforums.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909853)
[Syncthing](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002)
And lastly this gem:
[XScreensaver](https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html)

![](https://m.stacker.news/75314)