Does Google Play allow devs to include links to game community?

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I want to create my android game’s community or dev’s blog, you know… I’ve heard that Google Play can punish me for the link outside of the app.

  1. So, can I host my game’s community somewhere on the internet like Facebook group or so and make links to it in the app?
  2. Does it count like an advertisement if i make a pop-up message like “Hey! We have a game community now” in the game’s menu? What actions should I do for google play to allow to make such pop-up?
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I am curious about this also, I can’t find information about it anywhere. Many apps link to the developer’s website from the Google Play Store.
Unity.Application.OpenURL() is apparently a big security risk.
I was looking into running “House Ads” for my games that link to non-android games, but I can’t find information about the specific policy involved.

Many top apps will use the terms of use and privacy policy(PP) as links inside the app to their external website, so it looks like you can’t link directly to your website from inside the app, but you can be a few clicks removed by linking through the PP. It also seems fine to have developer branding in an about or credits popup / end screen. It is also fine to link to other android games directly on the play store.

However, you are NOT allowed to have ads on an endscreen, they are specifically required to interrupt normal gameplay, you are also NOT allowed to ask users to click ads to support you, or ask for donations on your external site directly in the app, you CAN’T have an about/credits link that goes directly to your developer website either. It is also NOT allowed to have ads of any kind on the PP or Terms of Use, doesn’t matter if you use webview or open in-browser, no ads in “framed content”.

Conspiracy:

Seems like the Alphabet soup company policy is purposely written broadly so they can oppress the unwashed dev masses at will - possibly even to steal intellectual property! I’m just going to stick with Unity ads for now and avoid ad-mob/ad-sense risk.