title: Any idea how to fix this Google Play policy violation?
body: <p>Honestly, I'm out of options. That's why I'm here. I'm hoping that maybe someone else has had a similar issue and knows what the problem might be.</p>
  
  <p>Going on a month ago now, I tried to update my app. The only change I made was moving a temporary file from the external storage to the cache storage. When I uploaded it to Google Play, it was rejected for a "Interfering with Apps, Third-party Ads, or Device Functionality" policy violation (the policy has since been renamed to "Monetization and Ads policy").</p>
  
  <p>I use Google Admob to serve a single interstitial ad after the user completes an operation. It only appears once and it will only appear every fifth time you use the app. So I thought maybe the issue was with the interstitial ad, so I changed it to a banner (which I've used on tons of other apps without issues) and it was again rejected for the same reason.</p>
  
  <p>Then I tried removing the ads entirely. This included completely removing the Google Play services Admob dependency from my app. I resubmitted and it still got rejected. So I decided to file an appeal, since it's clearly a mistake with the Google Play Console.</p>
  
  <p>The person responded with basically the same information that I got in the original email notifying me of the issue and said that I should be ok to resubmit the app. I tried, it failed, so they said to file another appeal. The next person I talked to for the second appeal again cut and paste the original violation email and said that if I think it's a mistake, I need to file another appeal. Five appeals later, I'm stuck in an infinite loop of filing an appeal just to be told to file another appeal.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone had a similar issue and, better yet, have any idea on how to fix it? The people who respond the emails refuse to explain what the cause of the issue is (other than copying and pasting the paragraphs from the policy page) and don't offer any input about how I could go about fixing it.</p>
  
  <p>I don't know what else to do.</p>