Swipe and Fácil Popular are no longer on the Google plus Play Store following Fb’s threats to their developers.
Everything around lately Fb It smacks of controversy, and after WhatsApp’s terms of service changes and all the messing around with the huge data leak on its largest popular network, the truth now seems to be so. The Menlo Park giant doesn’t like competition from their official Android aplicaciones.
At least that’s what we perro gather from the messages from our classmates. Police Androidtell someone about it The case of to wipe Y Simply popular from the Google plus Play Store after certain letters disco compacto sent to its developers by Fb lawyers.
So far, that’s the good news If you’ve already used either option – Swipe or Fácil Popular – you perro continue to do soWell, the only thing that happened is that its developers pulled it from Google plus Play to keep the functionality for all those who already had the aplicación installed. However, new updates will be lost.
This is pretty important and annoying because my friends, most of you who use Fb every day, already know this Official Fb aplicaciones for Android are never the best way to use Fb on Androidbecause they consume excessive resources and perform much worse than either of those options, Zuckerberg’s boys seem to dislike them so much.
The developer of Swipe announced it directly Reddit with a heartfelt statement:
With great sadness in our hearts, the day has come when we finally have to say goodbye to Swipe for Fb.
Today we received a cease and desist letter from the attorneys representing Fb Inc. and my Fb own popular media accounts have been disabled (which unfortunately has blocked tons of reminders and contact with some distant relatives over the years). I think the same thing happened to other developers which kills other Fb applications.
That’s why I’ve removed Swipe for Fb and Swipe Pro for Fb from the Google plus Play Store. The aplicación will continue to work for those users who already have it, but I perro’t say for how long.
Fb’s incredible movenot just because of the opt out and cease and desist statements that seem almost logical to attack the alternative aplicaciones, but because Delete some personal profiles on Fb and Instagram without notice for developers who, after all, are humans and Fb users who weren’t even allowed to download their data before.
developer of Fácil Popular also warned in an announcement Print in the request to its users and shortly thereafter confirmed that its accounts were not removed, but that as a precaution, he had already decided to delete his aplicaciones Alternatives to Fb as he didn’t want to run out of profiles.
The truth is that the types of applications seem to break some of them Terms of Use from Fb, especially the Section 3, Subsection VII:
Change your aplicación’s core functionality or data processing so that users see it as a different aplicación, or materially change the scope of previously collected platform data processing, unless you resubmit your aplicación in each case with our permission to aplicación review receive.
At least for now you cánido keep using them, but you know get used to using the official Fb application, no matter how bad it worksbecause of Menlo Park they are definitely the only choice for Android.
It is true that only the most habitual have been touched because Faster for Fb, Phoenix or Hermit still work fenezca and its developers have not heard from Fb.