{"id":163484,"date":"2016-04-29T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163484"},"modified":"2016-04-29T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T07:42:27","slug":"google-play-now-warns-you-when-an-app-has-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/163484-google-play-now-warns-you-when-an-app-has-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Play now warns you when an app has ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s marketplace for Android has started rolling out a feature which adds labels to apps that contain advertisements, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/04\/28\/google-play-now-labels-android-apps-containing-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venturebeat reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It posted a screenshot <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Android\/comments\/4gjoww\/contains_ads_designation_appearing_in_play_store\" target=\"_blank\">from Reddit<\/a><\/strong> showing that the label is placed right below the install button, and will be to the left of the in-app purchases label if it also applies.<\/p>\n<p>Venturebeat said that Google\u2019s new labelling drive began with the Designed for Families programme in 2015. It then expanded to all apps from November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Developers had until 11 January to log into the Google Play Developer Console and state whether their apps contained ads or not.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s new policy covers any type of ad being shown throughout the app, whether native, display, banner, or served up through third-party networks.<\/p>\n<p>The feature does not appear to have rolled out to the whole Android userbase yet, as many report that they do not yet see the label.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163486\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Play-in-app-ads-label.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163486\" class=\"size-new-size wp-image-163486\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Play-in-app-ads-label-640x430.jpg\" alt=\"Google Play in-app ads label\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Play in-app ads label<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Android<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/163394-blackberry-priv-upgrade-to-android-marshmallow-released.html\"><strong>BlackBerry PRIV upgrade to Android Marshmallow released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162968-chromebooks-set-to-receive-android-apps.html\"><strong>Chromebooks set to receive Android apps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161976-outlook-for-android-wear-is-here.html\"><strong>Outlook for Android Wear is here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/160494-androids-latest-security-release.html\"><strong>Android\u2019s latest security release<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/158985-new-stagefright-security-flaw-hits-millions-of-android-smartphones.html\"><strong>New Stagefright security flaw hits millions of Android smartphones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Android storefront will now warn you when an app has ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,397,167,10100],"class_list":["post-163484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-google","tag-google-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163484"}],"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=163484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}