For example, "We don't allow content that harms or interferes with the operation of the networks, servers, or other infrastructure of Google or any third-parties." Google for years has disallowed Android apps that block ads in other Android apps (with the exception of browsers), and its Chrome Web Store includes language that could be used to ban ad blocking extensions if Google chose to do so.
While Apple's VPN rules do not specifically address interfering with ads, it's likely the iOS guidelines leave enough room for interpretation that Apple could ban an iOS app that interferes with the functioning of other apps, were it so inclined.
Apps offering VPN services may not sell, use, or disclose to third parties any data for any purpose, and must commit to this in their privacy policy." The iOS rules state, "You must make a clear declaration of what user data will be collected and how it will be used on an app screen prior to any user action to purchase or otherwise use the service. Apple's iOS App Store includes a similar requirement to use a specific VPN API, named NEVPNManager, which is available only to developers who are part of an organization, not unaffiliated individual developers. "We don't believe we’ll be impacted by the policy but our team is continuing to review it," a spokesperson for the company told The Register in an email.Īnother app that could be affected is Jumbo for Android, which also appears to utilize VPN-related code to block trackers. Lessons to be learned from Google and Oracle's datacenter heatstrokeĭuckDuckGo, however, isn't convinced.Google, Apple squash exploitable browser bugs.Google Maps, search results to point women to actual abortion providers.FTC sues data broker for selling millions of people's 'precise' location info.Labdaoui points to the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for Android, which creates a local VPN service to make its App Tracking Protection block tracker server connections, as a potential casualty of the new Play policy.
Labdaoui suggests Blokada v6, which launched in June, should not be affected because it does filtering in the cloud without violating Google's device policies. "However, these policy changes also apply to apps that use the service to filter traffic locally on the device."
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