Google Bans Original Android Torrent App

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Android apps being delisted from the Google Play Store accidentally isn’t something that necessarily happens very often, but there are cases when the removal of big names really raise questions as to how effective Google’s filters actually are.

The best example comes from none other than the developer of open-source torrent client LIbreTorrent, who recently discovered that his app got banned from the Google Play Store due to what the search giant describes as spam.

As I said, accidents like this happen every now and then, but the odd thing isn’t necessarily that LibreTorrent was flagged as spam, but the fact that Google claims this is a clone of other torrent clients in the Store. When, in fact, LibreTorrent is actually the original app, and many other torrent clients offered in the Google Play store are nothing but clones with ads and no exclusive features.

As it typically happens when apps are removed from the Store by mistake, the developer of LibreTorrent reached out to Google to remove the ban, only to be told that his app is considered to be a duplicate.

“I’ve reviewed your appeal request and found that your app still violates Google Play Policy. During review, we found that your app violates the policy for Spam. We don’t allow apps that spam users or Google Play, such as apps that are duplicative and low-quality,” the response received by Yaroslav Pronin reads as per a report from TorrentFreak.