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Why there aren't ad blocking apps on Google Play (adguard.com)

submitted 1 year ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

Google is locking down certificates in Android 14 which absolutely cannot be changed even by devs

Hopefully Firefox adds an easy way to add a certificate. They had it already, never understood why they removed it.

Google has put into place infrastructure to lock apps down as well with its App Bundles to replace APKs

I don't think they can replace APKs with AABs as the only solution - EU wants them to have support for alternative stores. In theory they could do separate Android for EU and the rest of the world, but I don't think they will.