Google removes it from the Play Store in a haste to the Samsung browser-specific ad block application

Samsung has its own browser for Android "Samsung Internet for Android"To release the ad block function, release the content block API,RocketshipYaMurphy AppsEtc released the ad blocking application for Samsung browser, but after the release, in a few days Google will develop "Rocketship" from Google Play "Adblock FastHas been deleted. Google seems likely to take strict measures against ad blocking function.

Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10905672/google-samsung-adblock-fast-android-ad-blocker-removal

The application was deleted from the application development star top Rocketship developed and released in cooperation with Samsung The world's fastest advertisement blocking application "Adblock Fast(Link broken at article creation point) ". Adblock Fast is an application that adds content blocking function to Samsung smartphone's default browser "Samsung Internet for Android", which enabled you to hide the advertisement on the browser screen by using it. However, Adblock Fast gets frustrated that it will be removed from Google Play, due to developer policy violation, by Google only 3 days after its release.

The VergeAccording to the report, Rocketship developer Brian Kennych received from Google a notice that Adblock Fast was deleted due to policy violation in section 4.4. Section 4.4 states that "Applications and plug-ins that interrupt or interfere with third-party terminals, networks and services are not allowed", so Adblock Fast hindered "someone's" terminals, networks and services It means that there is doubt.


The exact reason why Google excluded Adblock Fast from Google Play is not clear, but this judgment can be deleted even for applications and plugins developed with the permission of an application developer It means that it means that Firefox, which also has a third party application that adds an advertisement deletion function, may also affect it. However, since it is not prohibited to have ad blocking function by browser alone, Samsugn can install ad blocking function in Samsung Internet for Android application.

In addition, at the time of writing the article, similarly the ad block application developed for Samsung Internet for Android "Crystal for Samsung Internet"Has not been deleted from Google Play, but it seems that there is a possibility that deletion measures will be taken in the future like Adblock Fast.