MyBrain Copycat on Google Play

Copycat on Google Play

Open Poussinou opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Hi,

There is a copycat of your app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nkus.app.space by this developer.

Can you confirm it's not you that published this app here? Can you report it to Google, so that people are not mistaken? :)

Aug 28 '22 09:08 Poussinou

thank you for the report. It's not me. but I don't know if google will consider it a Copycat if the original app is not on Google Play store.

Aug 28 '22 11:08 mhss1

I already saw the case of apps being taken down for being a copycat from Google Play without actually being on GP themselves.

Just link to your GitHub and maybe F-Droid in the DMCA request, it should be ok.

Aug 28 '22 13:08 Poussinou

Adding to this issue as it's still open.

Here's another copy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.chicha.app.mybrain

And what's up with this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhss.app.mybrain

Did they really hijack the package name? My app manager got somehow confused by that.

Oct 25 '23 07:10 tadwohlrapp

@tadwohlrapp FOI anyone can change the package name easily and use that.

Oct 26 '23 07:10 Ammar-Ishfaq