Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:14AM from the unblocking-the-blocked-blocker dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Adblock Plus has launched Adblock Browser for Android. Currently in beta, the company's first browser was created by taking the open source Firefox for Android and including Adblock Plus out-of-the-box. The Firefox Sync functionality is disabled, as is the ability to use other addons. "Adblock Plus for Android got kicked out of Google Play along with other ad blocking apps in March 2013, because Google’s developer distribution agreement states apps cannot interfere with the functionality of other apps. Williams thus believes Adblock Browser “should be fine” as it only blocks ads that are shown as you browse the Web."

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functionality blocking blocked? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-20 05:24 · Score: 0, Interesting

Wonderful. An app that is specifically advertised to change the behaviour of another app and its whole purpose is to change the behaviour of another app is not allowed because it changes the behaviour of another app. So the only extensions that are allowed are those that add functionality but cannot make a change if it is possible to construe it in a way as to limit some other thing the app does. This is less than ideal Mr. Google.