THELOGICALINDIAN - Two aerial contour bans in a week
The MetaMask app has been abeyant from the Google Play Store. Citing apropos that the app mined on user devices, this is the additional time this anniversary that Google censors cryptocurrency ecosystems hosted on its platforms.
MetaMask is an Ethereum wallet that includes avant-garde appearance to collaborate with dApps and other non-transactional uses. In a Twitter thread, MetaMask notified the association that the Android app has been abeyant for violations of its “no mining on accessories policy,” admitting the actuality that the app is open-source. An address of this accommodation has been alone citation the aforementioned account — mining. No absolute advisers appear mining cipher in MetaMask.
This isn’t the aboriginal time that MetaMask is censored by Google, with the aggregation citation a case from summer 2024 area its Chrome Extension was analogously removed from the store. In that case, Google “spontaneously” reinstated the app afterward association outcry.
Until then, Android users are larboard with few choices for accepting MetaMask. The aggregation has not yet fabricated an .apk bifold accessible for download, acceptation that the alone actual advantage is to body the app from the antecedent code.
Google Turning Against Crypto?
Earlier this week, abounding crypto YouTube channels saw their videos removed from the site. That ban has been back lifted, with Decrypt advertisement that Google saw it as an accident. YouTube agreeable is about advised by a mix of real people and AI-based software. Given the across of the ban, it’s absurd that it was the aftereffect of the judgement of low-level employees. Culprits could be either a accommodation fabricated by management, or a apparatus acquirements algorithm gone “rogue.”
Similar rationalizations can be fabricated for the MetaMask ban, admitting this could additionally be the assignment of a distinct agent or baby groups of them.
Conspiracy theories bound emerged, claiming that Google is anchor bottomward on crypto in alertness of the barrage of a aggressive service. Facebook’s ban of ICO ads in 2018 could be interpreted in that key, as the amusing media behemothic was accounted to be alive on what would become Libra anon after.
However, Google afresh fabricated advances to the acceptable cyberbanking sector. Though a crypto-based alms is not to be disqualified out, for now the aggregation charcoal committed to absolute systems.
The cord of bans could calmly be a coincidence, or alike an attack by Google to assure its users. Some in the crypto association acicular out that accepting rid of YouTube influencers, some of which advance Ponzi schemes, would’ve been a acceptable thing.
More confirmations are bare to affirmation that Google is systematically acting adjoin the crypto ecosystem.
