This type of Event represents when a BigTech company interferes with an application on one of its centralized app platforms. The two biggest examples are Apple with its App Store and Google with its Play Store. Most of the time, it’s just one of these companies outright removing an application.
Apple Blocks ProtonVPN Updates During Fallout From Myanmar Coup
17 Mar 2021
Google Play Suspends Element (Reinstated)
30 Jan 2021
Google Play Purges Over 150k 1-Star Reviews For Robinhood
28 Jan 2021
Minds Reduces App Functionality to Avoid Google Play Suspension
15 Jan 2021
Apple Removes Parler's App & Amazon Disables Parler's Servers
9 Jan 2021
Google Removes BitSlide App From the Play Store
17 Dec 2020
Rumble Trends #1 on Google Play
13 Nov 2020
Google Removes Hexagod Bitchute App From the Play Store
29 Oct 2020
Google Removes LBRY App From Play Store
25 Sep 2020
Apple and Google Remove Fortnite
13 Aug 2020
Google Removes MetaMask dApp Browser From Play Store
20 Dec 2019
Google Removes Hong Kong Protester App From Play Store
10 Oct 2019
Apple Removes HKmap.live From App Store
9 Oct 2019
Apple Removes the Quartz News App From China's App Store
9 Oct 2019
Google Bans Gab From the Play Store, Again
19 Jul 2019
Google Gives Gab One Week to Censor Uncensorable Content
12 Jul 2019
Apple Removes Unofficial WikiLeaks App
20 Dec 2010