Google Now Censoring Android Apps!, page 3

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Alternatives, Apple for (OS/Browser/Phone), Microsoft for (OS/Browser/Phone/Search Engine). Firefox for (Browser/Phone), Ubuntu for (OS/Think for the Phone also) and as far as search engines there are dozens.





Also as someone already said your phone had to be rooted in the first place to use any ad blocker, I've looked into it myself but do not want to void my warranty. So for the people into all that stuff already know where to go, this takes nothing away from a regular user.

Originally posted by SilentKoala

Google Takes the Dark Path, Censors AdBlock Plus on Android

In a shocking move, Google has recently deleted AdBlock Plus from the Android Play Store. This is hugely disappointing because it demonstrates that Google is willing to censor software and abandon its support for open platforms as soon as there's an ad-related business reason for doing so.

Until now, the Internet and software development communities have relied on Google to be safely on their side when it comes to building open platforms, encouraging innovation, and giving users maximum choice about how their computers will function. But with today's news, that commitment to openness suddenly looks much, much weaker.

Read the rest of the article here: www.eff.org...

This is very disturbing news. Personally I rely on a number of privacy apps and add-ons that help to protect my identity online and prevent tracking without my consent. It is my right to control what is and sent sent to and from my computer, since I own my computer; same goes for my smart phone. Privacy software is becoming increasingly important in this day and age.

We are entering a new age of censorship that is based on protecting profits rather than censoring political ideologies, and is being perpetrated by corporations rather than governments, and I think this is a lot more dangerous. You can't trust anyone who bases content censorship decisions on financial motives; these kinds of people are the least trustworthy and in my opinion, the lowest form of scum. They hide behind their same tired argument of "we're a private company so we can do whatever we want" which in their minds, apparently absolves them of any moral responsibility and intellectual integrity. (No doubt the shills will be on here soon to beat that dead horse.)

I'm just glad I have enough of a facility with technology to know how to root devices and install 3rd party apps, so this won't directly affect me, but not everyone is as privy with technology, and I feel a great disservice has been done to Android users who might care about what kind of content is sent to and from their devices.

edit on 14-3-2013 by SilentKoala because: (no reason given)

Well, it seems that your first mistake was in buying a smartphone. If you didn't have one, you wouldn't have to worry about apps being censored.

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Originally posted by snowspirit

Originally posted by 123143
Explain something to me if you can. This only happens here at ATS.

A couple of times a day I am redirected by something called "adking" and I end up at the Play Store. It stops the page load completely and I end up at Google.

Is this something I should report to the staff here?

I get that too.
Constantly. Then it opens my iTunes store directly to some game called Candy Crush Saga, which is free, but I still don't want it.
If I catch it happening first, it's preventable, but it's a pain in the butt
It takes ya right out of ats.
That shouldn't be acceptable.

If I was on my computer instead of my phone, I wonder if it would take me to google? It's that same "adking".

edit on 14-3-2013 by snowspirit because: (no reason given)

Norton Antivirus caught a redirector virus on my system that would most likely have caused similar behavior. Apparently it was new enough that NAV didn't catch it when it was downloaded, probably in a drive-by infection.

In my case there was a strange DLL in the "C:\Documents and Settings\MY USER NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\WMTools Downloaded Files\Google" directory. Do a search on your hard drive for "WMTools Downloaded Files" or update your antivirus to the latest version and run a full scan of your drive.

I also noticed that my browser, Firefox, prompted me to install a newer version of Flash because the version I had installed was compromised. I did a quick investigation and it appears that the exploit became active around the time I was out here on ATS. It might be worth the ATS moderators' time to take a quick look to see if any of their advertiser's products have been compromised.

** Sorry for the off topic post, but I thought this might be important **

Dex

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www.clipconverter.cc... is relatively good and is one of the few that doesn't require Java.

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Thanks, I will check that one out. Appreciate it.

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