EU, what about Google monopolies??
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Clickbait? The developer is Palestinian/Australian, the app’s audience is global, and it’s not just Palestine-specific. So what’s up with the sensationalised title?
If anything the app is Australian, Australian made, the developers are in Australia.. this is clickbait
It's an app developed by a Palestinian which got popular because of recent increasing censorship on TikTok and Instagram against Palestine.
I’m aware. But it’s not just Palestine being censored, it’s currently anything the current U.S administration doesn’t like. So anything anti-trump/Zionist/Israel/ICE falls into this category.
I’m saying the title is misleading because it could be construed as “a social media app/platform specifically made for Palestinians”, which is what most people that haven’t heard of the app before would assume by reading the title alone.
That's true but most of the hammer is coming down on Palestine content right now. Netanyahu publicly said the goal of the TikTok purchase was to censor for Israel and they're pulling out all the stops. ICE content isn't nearly as censored as Palestine content atm
Palestine is just one topic the US is bashing down. The common theme out there us US censorship and control.
The most common theme of censorship worldwide is most certainly Palestine.
Yes its all about you
It's back I am downloading it now. Good guy google with the streisand effect.
E: Oh it's just isreal hating which is fun and all but doesn't get anyone anywhere but a list lol
Reminder that Google is on it's third attempt to prevent or limit the installation of APKs outside of the Play Store, meaning they are near the point they can effectively control what apps people run.
When this happens I'm flashing graphene os onto my pixel 9
u should do that anyway, it's so nice to not feel watched while typing
Do it now, use obtainium, droidfy and aurora. Nearly every app works except google wallet.
My only problem stopping me is I use my phone for work too. Microsoft auth, outlook. Mostly just auth. I was looking it up a bit ago and people said it breaks it for work accounts
I use edge for mails and texts because msoft auth stopped prompting and working.
Not a good idea to mix personal and work devices. I'd recommend getting a cheap budget phone to use for work.
Or ask your work to give you a phone?
My company insists on spyware for my phone, so I insist they give me a phone for work stuff. I leave it off in a drawer at home when I'm not on call.
I'd recommend demanding work getting a cheap budget phone.
If they require you have work software they can provide the hardware to run it.
Your phone is your phone.
The MS auth I need for a work VPN has been set up to call my phone instead, letting me sign in by tapping the # button after answering the phone call from MS.
I currently use MS Auth on my Graphene OS phone. Have installed Play Services on that profile, though
And this is why, we sold have https://joinloops.org/ instead
That's a different type of platform though. Upscrolled = insta, Loops = tiktok.
Not just an alternative to TikTok, but also need one for Google Play, and Android too while we're at it. (Yes, I know they exist. Just making a point)
brb buying an iPhone
'no wait not like that'
No website is certainly a choice
IIRC the app is Australian but founder is Palestinian-Australian
De-listed where? It's listed still for me.
I'm guessing it was a regional de-listment and it just wasn't specified.
Being said, this page was enough to make me install the app, still unsure if I wanna use it or not but, I don't wanna risk losing the ability to install the app either.
It's back. It was gone for just a few hours it seems
This is what Google does. They censor content and keep it gone as long as there isn't a sufficient retaliation.
It's what they did to remove AdNauseam from their addon repository. The only difference is nobody fought back so it remains gone to this day without justifiable reason.
The more I work for tech companies the more I genuinely end up believing that stuff like this being removed is in fact just incompetence at least 50% of the time
I work in tech too, and I'm convinced almost none of these abusive tactics are the result of incompetence.
The abuse is the point. They need to constantly remind people who is in charge.
A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.
The devs confirmed it was delisted. Not sure what its current status is. Seeing mixed messages online so it might be regional delisting or it might have been restored.
No politic here!
I don't have any accounts on the fash friendly state-funded/corpo social platforms, but has anyone seen if the developer has made a statement online since the app got relisted?
Either way,, I wouldn't use this app at this point. Not because of anything the developer has done, rather because Google can man-in-the-middle any version of the app he submits. Might sound a little far fetched, but given the continous fealty to this administration, and Google's deep relationships with Gov entities going back decades...
Well... why trust them to not be supplying whatever alphabet agency with user data?