Ok, this story is more about Google Play Store but I feel like there is maybe (in my opinion) some conflict and abuse of dominant position here too.
Felt like it was relevant will all the other Google stories in the last days (Nest for ex.)
> Chromium-based Kiwi Browser attracted widespread attention last month after it added support for desktop Chrome extensions. The app recently vanished from the Play Store, and while some assumed it was due to the browser's new extension support, it was apparently removed due to its ability to play YouTube videos in the background — functionality that is supposed to be reserved for the native YouTube app with a Premium subscription.
Fuck this shit man. As a kid I always wanted to work for Google. And now as a teen I find it hard to believe how they turned on the whole "don't do evil" thing.
It's like a friend put it the last time I was ranting about this:
"Its like funding out your childhood hero was a fraud :/"
It wasn't: don't do evil, it was: don't, do evil.
As I said before, everyone loves Google until it stomps them on their face.
People have been permanently banned from everything on Google for their bots stupid algorithm.
Fuck Google and fuck everything they stand for.
And enforcement of law and contract should not be built into programs - they're supposed to serve the user, not betray them to corporations and government.
There are numerous reasons to use the application.
1) FOSS, available in F-Droid.
2) Multitasking.
3) No ghost touching
4) Saves battery.
My alternative would be using Firefox where I utilize uBlock.
I see that there's a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android
But the status of the code is unclear (the readme just says it's unsupported), and the last public commit was months ago while the app on the Play Store (having been restored) was updated much more recently.