{"id":1207163,"date":"2023-11-29T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207163"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:31:49","slug":"web-browser-suspended-because-it-can-browse-the-web-is-back-on-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207163","title":{"rendered":"Web browser suspended because it can browse the web is back on Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-logo-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large Google logo at a trade fair.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-logo.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1667\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | Alexander Koerner)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Google Play has reversed its latest ban on a web browser that keeps getting targeted by vague Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices. Downloader, an Android TV app that combines a browser with a file manager, was <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.esaba.downloader\">restored to Google Play<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>Downloader, made by app developer Elias Saba, was suspended on Sunday after a DMCA notice submitted by copyright-enforcement firm MarkScan on behalf of Warner Bros. Discovery. It was the second time in six months that Downloader was suspended based on a complaint that the app&#8217;s web browser is capable of loading websites.<\/p>\n<p>The first suspension in May lasted three weeks, but Google reversed the latest one much more quickly. As we <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/11\/weird-dmca-takedown-google-play-bans-app-because-it-can-load-warnerbros-com\/\">wrote on Monday<\/a>, the MarkScan DMCA notice didn&#8217;t even list any copyrighted works that Downloader supposedly infringed upon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987155#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987155&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web browser suspended because it can browse the web is back on Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Alexander Koerner) Google Play has reversed its latest ban on a web browser that keeps getting targeted by vague Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices. Downloader, an Android TV app that combines a browser with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207163\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1207163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}