Google‘s Chrome Extension Store Lifts the ban on MetaMask browser


In week-long developments, which witnessed an abrupt suspension of the MetaMask browser from the Google play store on 26 December, shut down the speculations after MetaMask has been reinstated after a week. In continuation with the previous tweet, MetaMask retweeted on January 1 that the ban has been lifted and their DApp browser for android mobile users has been reinstated on Google. Just a week back on 26 December, Google abruptly had banned MetaMask’s built-in Ethereum Wallet and decentralized app (DApp) browser meant for the android mobile users from its play store. MetaMask had then expressed its apprehension on twitter.
https://twitter.com/metamask_io/status/1212431777047830528?s=20
After the suspension, MetaMask Co-lead Developer Dan Findlay had commented in despair. He said, “I very much hope that this was an honest mistake on the part of Google's reviewers, but in combination with all the Crypto YouTube bans it puts me at disease about how Google is engaging in decentralizing technologies. If people accept this behavior from a mobile monopoly like Google we may not deserve something better.”
Probable Reasons behind the Suspension
MetaMask had assumed that the reason behind
the ban was probably Google’s anti-mining precautionary policy for mobile
users. Google had banned the MetaMask for violating
its Financial Services Policy. MetaMask
had ruled out any such violations and had alluded that Google might have taken
this action following it’s the normal precautionary Web 3 Standards. It further has appealed to Google to
reconsider its action.
Regulatory Measures by the Centralized
Platforms
At the year-end, few fraud entities from
the crypto industry, lure the users with free bounties and
many are thus likely to fall for the fraudulent activities. Hence at the year-end of 2019, Google, as
well as YouTube, had adopted a stern policy of culling crypto-related content
from their platforms. YouTube had removed crypto-related videos and had banned
popular crypto- channels which it reinstated after an uproar. YouTube further claimed
it as an error and fallacious step on its part.
Crypto-Community
deliberating for Decentralized Platforms
After these
arbitrary actions by Google and YouTube
which are centralized platforms, the crypto community is disheartened and
furious over their growing censorship measures. Recently Binance
CEO Changpeng Zhao and Tron CEO and founder Justin Sun have expressed their
discontent on twitter and have emphasized the inevitability of the
decentralized alternatives for the crypto and blockchain industry. The buzz is
spreading and the crypto communities are getting highly vocal for the
decentralized content creation alternatives.

Jayashree Ingle
CBW - External Analyst
INDIA