{"id":154078,"date":"2016-02-04T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154078"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:03:52","slug":"google-removes-top-ad-blocker-from-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/154078-google-removes-top-ad-blocker-from-play-store.html","title":{"rendered":"Google removes top ad blocker from Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has removed Android ad blocking app\u00a0Adblock Fast from its Play Store, following its climb to the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The plug-in from Rocketship Apps worked within Samsung&#8217;s mobile browser, with the two companies partnering on the project, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/3\/10905672\/google-samsung-adblock-fast-android-ad-blocker-removal\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Google told\u00a0Rocketship it violated\u00a0section 4.4 of of its Developer Distribution Agreement, with the app\u00a0&#8220;interfering or disrupting devices, networks, or services of third parties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Verge reported that since the removal of Adblock Fast, two other Android ad blocking plug-ins have popped up: Crystal and Adblock Plus.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ad blockers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/143244-lets-fight-ad-blockers-google-executive.html\">Let\u2019s fight ad-blockers: Google executive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/147209-axel-springer-sues-ad-blocking-service.html\">Axel Springer sues ad blocking service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has removed Android ad blocking app Adblock Fast from its Play Store, following its climb to the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,35280,167,9557],"class_list":["post-154078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-ad-blocker","tag-google","tag-google-play-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154082,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154078\/revisions\/154082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}