Claims and plugin takedowns

Kino is a player: it does not host, sell or distribute content. The list of community plugins is an automatic index of third-party public repositories that use the kino-plugin topic; Kino does not review, recommend or promote them, and each author is responsible for their own plugin. If a plugin infringes your rights, is harmful or breaks the rules for plugins (for example, it uses userMessage to ask for money, passwords or contact data), open an issue at github.com/kinotvapp/kino-plugins/issues naming the repository and the reason. We remove it from the index within 5 business days at most and leave a public record in the repository's history. Authors can ask for a takedown to be reviewed the same way.

How to file a claim

1. Open an issue at github.com/kinotvapp/kino-plugins/issues with the "Reclamo / retiro de plugin" template. Claims are only received this way, in public; there is no e-mail.
2. Fill in its three fields:
   • Repositorio (repository): the plugin, as owner/name (the one shown in "De la comunidad").
   • Motivo (reason): which right it infringes, why it is harmful, or which rule for plugins it breaks.
   • Enlace a la prueba (link to the evidence): where what you claim can be seen.
3. Do not include personal data you don't want public: anyone can read the issue.

What Kino does

• It adds the repository to community-blocklist.json, at the root of this repository, within 5 business days at most. Each entry names the repository, the reason, the date and the link to the issue. The reasons:
  • claim: it infringes someone's rights;
  • malware: it is harmful;
  • broken: it does not work;
  • rules: it breaks the rules for plugins ("incumple las reglas para plugins"), for example a userMessage that asks for money, passwords or contact data (The contract);
  • author_request: its author asked for it.

That file's git history is the public record. - The app downloads that list and applies it: - a listed repository never shows in "De la comunidad" nor in the fallback list; - a listed plugin someone already has installed keeps working, but its card says "Retirado del índice de la comunidad." and it no longer receives updates from its repository. It is not uninstalled by force. - installing it by typing its address (owner/repo or the URL of its manifest) still works. - The repository match ignores case. A fork of a removed repository is not removed automatically: it needs its own claim.

If you are the author

Ask for the takedown to be reviewed the same way: an issue at github.com/kinotvapp/kino-plugins/issues, linking the original issue and explaining what changed. If it is accepted, the repository leaves the list in another commit, public too. To take your own plugin out of the index, open the issue with the reason "at the author's request" (author_request), or set "discoverable": false in your manifest (The manifest).

Community plugins and recommended plugins

The app shows the community section with the note "Plugins de la comunidad — Kino no los revisa ni responde por su contenido." The recommended plugins are another list, short and kept by Kino (Example plugins); community plugins show up on their own when they meet the discovery requirements.