XScreenSaver for Android • Privacy Policy (2024)

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He updated it later on:

"Update: On June 8th, 2024, I submitted this privacy policy to Google, and on June 10th, they accepted it. I take this to mean that they found it to be 100% factual and endorse it entirely. XScreenSaver was restored to the "Play" [sic] store, and people were able to again downloaded and enjoy it freely.

But then!

Barely 6 weeks later, on July 24th, 2024, Google instituted yet another new policy: basically they told me that if I didn't give them a sample of my blood a copy of my driver's license, they would remove XScreenSaver from the "Play" [sic] store, again.

Obviously that's never going to happen. Do I, the person who wrote the above list cataloging Google's various predations, seem like the sort of person who would willingly give Google my private details? On purpose? I do not think so.

Having distributed XScreenSaver for over a decade to I-don't-even-know-how-many users (I actually don't know, I never looked) Google suddenly decided that it was a huge problem that they don't have a lock of my hair.

Since I enjoy wasting the time and money of multinational superpredators, I spent a few weeks going back and forth with what passes for developer "support" over there. You can read about it over on my blog. Eventually they just started ignoring my emails, and in November 2024, XScreenSaver was again de-listed from the Google "Play" [sic] store, presumably this time for good.

However, we can take solace in the fact that Google endorsed the above privacy policy, and found no fault with it whatsoever."