Documentation should contain warnings about Vungle regarding Google Play

[Colin-Morgan]

The main Vungle plugin and the Appodeal Vungle plugin are both outdated and contain a side-loading loophole that violates Google Play Store policy. Including either of these plugins in a build that is uploaded to the Play Store, even in an internal testing track, results in the app being removed entirely from the Play Store and the developer receiving a strike on their account. (I just found this out the hard way when I was alpha testing Appodeal with one of my apps.)
This has the potential to do real harm to a developer and should be mentioned in the documentation. I recommend adding a "Gotchas" section to the Vungle plugin page and the Appodeal plugin page mentioning this.
Suggested text for the Vungle plugin:
WARNING: The Vungle plugin contains a side-loading loophole that violates Google Play Store policy and should not be used in builds targeting the Google Play Store. Uploading a build to the Google Play Store that contains the Vungle plugin will result in the app being removed from the Play Store.
Suggested text for the Appodeal plugin:
WARNING: The Vungle plugin contains a side-loading loophole that violates Google Play Store policy and should not be used in builds targeting the Google Play Store. Uploading a build to the Google Play Store that contains the Vungle plugin will result in the app being removed from the Play Store. Make sure to comment out plugin.appodeal.Vungle or plugin.appodeal.beta.Vungle from your build.settings file when building for the Play Store.

[Shchvova]

I probably should update those plugins to solve this.

[Colin-Morgan]

Since the Vungle plugin is first-party and they have indicated to me that they are not planning on updating it, I wasn't sure that was even in the cards from your end.

[sekodev]

Is this still an issue?

[Colin-Morgan]

To the best of my knowledge, the Vungle plugin has not been updated, and there's still no warning telling people not to use it for builds that target the Google Play Store in the docs. I still haven't received a response from Vungle that indicates they even understand the question I'm asking them regarding updating the plugin.