Recently, our app was removed and suspended from the Play Store. We got an email from Google Play Store team notifying us that
We’ve determined that your app (Version Code: 16) has versioned.host.exp.exponent.modules.api.fbads.* classes which is facilitating unauthorized advertising clicks on user’s device. In order to prevent further suspension, please update your app to fix this issue.
On further investigation, we believe that the above classes are part of Facebook Ads SDK which are added as a dependency in Expo. Please note that our app does not show any advertisements, and is not using (or includes) any other ads SDK.
Is there any way to remove the Facebook Ads dependency or any workaround to restore the app (as asked by the Google Play team)?
Have you contacted the Play Store team and indicated that your app is not making use of the SDK despite it being bundled in the binary? Very curious to get more information about what specifically Google found in violation here.
Hi @adamjnav,
They have given this link to specific policy violation page Device and Network Abuse - Play Console Help
The reason stated is same, " We’ve determined that your app ( Version Code: 16 ) has versioned.host.exp.exponent.modules.api.fbads.* classes which is facilitating unauthorized advertising clicks on user’s device. In order to prevent further suspension, please update your app to fix this issue."
