Stefan Mileschin

Don't you mess with revenue

Google will ban Android VPN apps in its Play store from iblocking advertising which could cause some major headaches for privacy applications.

The updated Google Play policy, announced last month, will take effect on November 1. It states that only apps using the Android VPNService base class, and that function primarily as VPNs, can open a secure device-level tunnel to a remote service.

Such VPNs, however, cannot "manipulate ads that can impact apps monetisation."

The big idea is to deter data-grabbing VPN services, such as Facebook's discontinued Onavo, and to prevent ad fraud, but Blokada, a Sweden-based maker of an ad-blocking VPN app, worries this rule will hinder at least the previous iteration of its software, v5, and other privacy-oriented software.

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