Why is AdGuard not on Google Play?
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AdGuard for Android is a powerful app that blocks ads and protects your privacy. But why it's not available on the Google Play Store? Read on to find out.

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

  •  belated_frog_pants   ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) 
    6•10 months ago

    All of googles products except cloud exist to either sell customer data to companies to advertise to or they direct you to websites who pay.

    They are an ad data company. Search is a means to deliver ads. Chrome, mail, docs, etc were all there for ecosystem lock in… for what money? Customer data. For ads. Google+? User base. For ads.

    Youtube doesnt make them shit except for advertising. Youtube premium isnt selling which is why they are getting aggressive with it.

    Google is an advertising company and secondarily , a cloud provider.