Normally, whenever Google decides to remove apps from the Play Store, it is due to these apps functioning as malicious ones, and are more often than not involved in data theft or screwing up your device in ways that you would not want to. Well, it seems that Google’s recent scythe that cut through the Play Store would involve ad-blockers, touting that these ad blocking apps will contravene its Android Developer Distribution Agreement.
In Section 4.4 of the above mentioned agreement, it claims that there is prohibition of an app “that interferes with, disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the devices, servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party including, but not limited to, Android users, Google or any mobile network operator.” As the ad blocker’s main purpose of existence is to disrupt the functionality of other apps, it goes without saying that these will be culled, and is a textbook case to boot. What do you think of Google’s move? Of course, manual installs of such ad blocking apps will still be an alternative method, but forget about finding them on the Play Store any more.
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