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Re: [2018-07-27] Google Play Officially Bans Cryptocurrency Miners
by
veleten
on 27/07/2018, 20:10:11 UTC
Google will no longer allow cryptocurrency mining apps on the Android Play Store

Earlier this year, the search engine giant banned crypto mining extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including the ones that were solely focused on mining. In addition, Google updated its Financial Services Policy last month prohibiting ads relating to “Cryptocurrencies and related content (including but not limited to initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, and cryptocurrency trading advice)”.

The recently updated Play Store developer policy states:

“We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices. We permit apps that remotely manage the mining of cryptocurrency.”

See more: https://news.bitzamp.com/google-play-officially-bans-cryptocurrency-miners/

on one hand there were too many rogue and plain scam apps that would do bad things to your devices
on the other hand,some of the apps that are now no longer available
were the reasons some people learned about bitcoins,mining and cryptocurrencies in general
if I were Google I'd rather focus on removing scam apps faster,some of them manage to sit there for days and get hundreds of thousands of downloads