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I had the same idea 4 years ago and did the exact same thing for several apps. This was a bad idea : https://medium.com/@kirualex/an-android-developers-nightmare...

Google content policy is now very clear : Do not post any applications whose primary function is to: generate traffic to a website; or provide an overview of a website that you do notown and you do not handle (unless you have permission of the owner / administrator of the website).

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Wow, that's quite a surprise. I just checked the terms you quoted - https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html - and of course you're absolutely right.

I can see why Google specify this since a store filled with spammy apps wrapping popular sites would be bad for everyone. But this puts the kibosh on privacy-focused apps like Tinfoil for Facebook or the Twitter equivalent, and bloat-reducing apps like the OP's. I imagine that these have yet to be suspended simply because nobody at Google has noticed them.

mmm, very informative. Need to go look at those policies again.

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