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by rquirk 4028 days ago
Wow, that's quite a surprise. I just checked the terms you quoted - https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html - and of course you're absolutely right.

I can see why Google specify this since a store filled with spammy apps wrapping popular sites would be bad for everyone. But this puts the kibosh on privacy-focused apps like Tinfoil for Facebook or the Twitter equivalent, and bloat-reducing apps like the OP's. I imagine that these have yet to be suspended simply because nobody at Google has noticed them.