from the appeal: "My app helps people avoid pornography by monitoring their actions and reporting those actions to the person they specify"
from the features list: "...is hard to circumvent...", "option to remove the icon in the status bar", "Accountability partners are notified if you ever disable the app".
it's straight up spyware. it doesn't help you "avoid pornography" by blocking it like you would do if you actually wanted to avoid pornography, just by spying on you. Just because you put "for personal use only, wink wink, nudge nudge" in the description it doesn't make it any less of an app designed to invisibly and remotely monitor the activities on somebody else's phone. This is exactly what the Google Play guidelines forbid, and if you didn't read them before you published your app that's on you. Consider yourself lucky that you got away with it for this long.
from the features list: "...is hard to circumvent...", "option to remove the icon in the status bar", "Accountability partners are notified if you ever disable the app".
it's straight up spyware. it doesn't help you "avoid pornography" by blocking it like you would do if you actually wanted to avoid pornography, just by spying on you. Just because you put "for personal use only, wink wink, nudge nudge" in the description it doesn't make it any less of an app designed to invisibly and remotely monitor the activities on somebody else's phone. This is exactly what the Google Play guidelines forbid, and if you didn't read them before you published your app that's on you. Consider yourself lucky that you got away with it for this long.