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What was the violation? Just because they interpret something as a violation it doesn't make it true.


The violation is that adblockers were blocking ads in other 3rd party apps. Manipulating other apps is the violation.

This has nothing do with the blocking ads on the web like people are saying. These instead block ads in things like Angry Birds and other apps.



Its probably worth noting that the first response is the following:

"As a developer for Adblock Plus I am looking forward to a resolution to this issue which indeed is a serious problem.

Here are our proposals on how to fix this security hole without compromising Adblock Plus and similar apps: (A) Add an additional permission for apps that want to act as a proxy and/or (B) Add an API to Android that is similar to Gecko's nsIContentPolicy and Chromium's WebRequest (access to this API may require the permission mentioned in (A))"




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