No More “Sugar Dating” in the Play Store – Google Steps In

We know that a lot of people like to have a “sugar daddy” or a “sugar mama”, meaning the generous person disposed to offer financial support for compensating romantic encounters. Google knows it too, and that’s why it wants such practices eliminated, at least from the tech giant’s Play Store.

According to The Verge, Google won’t tolerate apps focused on ‘compensated sexual relationships’ anymore. The company will kick out such software from the Play Store pretty soon.

Dead end: September 1st

Those looking for a “sugar daddy” or “sugar mama” to pay their bills will have to move quickly. They only have one month left at their disposal to find a wealthy and elderly person generous enough to pay them money for… pretty much nothing.

However, the policies of the Google Play Store were already forbidding apps that promote services “that may be interpreted as providing sexual acts in exchange for compensation.”

With the upcoming update, the definition will include “compensated dating or sexual arrangements where one participant is expected or implied to provide money, gifts or financial support to another participant (‘sugar dating’).”

But Google also brings other new stuff except for the anti “sugar dating” implementation. The tech giant also aims to delete developer accounts if they had been inactive for an entire year.

Exceptions will be made in the case of accounts for apps that have more than a thousand installs or having recent in-app purchases. But if over the course of 12 months, a developer didn’t bother to sign in to the Google Play Console, neither did he uploaded at least an app, his account is likely to go through deletion and eternal oblivion.

So much for “sugar dating” via the Google Play Store. Such apps can still be accessed through other platforms.