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meh.. censorship detector is not what this actually does. Read the https://applecensorship.com/methodology/ https://applecensorship.com/methodology/ "a web cra
by cirrus3 5y ago
meh.. censorship detector is not what this actually does. Read the https://applecensorship.com/methodology/ https://applecensorship.com/methodology/
"a web crawler that indexes all apps available in any of the countries and regions which currently have an App Store, and verifies availability of these apps on each of these App Stores."
"So if an app is unavailable in one or more app stores, does it mean it has been censored by apple?
No. Unfortunately, no algorithm could ever detect censorship that easily, for the simple reason that censorship is a human decision that is invisible in the binary realm of the World Wide Web. What the ASM does is detect if an app is available somewhere but unavailable elsewhere."
- bmarquez 5y agoFrom the website: > Ultimately, only by contacting the developer, can one confirm censorship. Yeah I wish the website did this for every app listed, because claiming censorship if a developer temporarily removes an app in a region for language fixes or bugs makes it seem like a boy who cried wolf situation. At its current form it's more of a "is this app available in your region?" database.
- lostlogin 5y agoThanks. The puzzle app deleted locally had me scratching me head.
- etchalon 5y ago"Here's a list of actions which might be nefarious! We don't know, and we're not gonna find out, but we can imply they are!"
- duskwuff 5y agoThey're also treating any app that's removed from sale as having been "censored" -- even though that includes apps which were removed by their own developer. (For example, it ends up including Facebook Lite, which Facebook discontinued in 2020.) There's also a lot of apps listed under "Disappeared Apps" which look like legitimate removals for content issues, like scams or trademark infringement.
- epgui 5y agoThis website is basically a persecution complex by design haha.