Garena Free Fire, 53 other ‘Chinese’ apps banned: Full list of banned apps
The Interior Ministry has recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications, including the popular Garena Free Fire game. Interestingly Garena Free Fire based Singapore and developers are not from China. This game is one of the most downloaded games in India last year, and has taken space made by the pub Mobile after being banned on September 2020. This application has been removed from the Google Play Store and the App Store in India, as IndianExpress .com has reported Sunday.
According to PTI, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) formally issue a notification that prohibits the operation of this application in India. By 2020, the government has also forbid tiktok and other popular short video applications from China. When Tiktok was banned on June 29, 2020, the list included around 59 applications in total. Other popular applications in the list are Shareit, Shein (Fashion and Application sites), Xiaomi Mi Community, Clash of Kings, Weibo, etc
MEITH has prohibited previous applications under Section 69A from the Information Technology Act, which states that the government has “the power to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through computer resources.” This is usually when the government is “satisfied that it is necessary or wise to do for the interests of Indian sovereignty or integrity, Indian defense, state security, friendship relations with foreign countries or public order or to prevent the incitement of the violation commission that can be recognized related to the above or for violation investigations whatever. “
For Tiktok and Pubg, the government said that this was prohibited “considering the nature of the threat that arises” as “they are involved in activities that are detrimental to Indian sovereignty and integrity, country defense, state security and public orders.” Pubg is prohibited from September 2020, along with 117 other applications. The third list of applications is prohibited from coming out in November 2020, which includes a total of 43 applications. Aliexpress is the name that is most prominent in a certain list.
The full list of 54 blocked Chinese apps is provided below:
1 Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD
2 Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera
3 Equalizer – Bass Booster & Volume EQ & Virtualizer
4 Music Player- Music.Mp3 Player
5 Equalizer & Bass Booster – Music Volume EQ
6 Music Plus – MP3 Player
7 Equalizer Pro – Volume Booster & Bass Booster
8 Video Player Media All Format
9 Music Player – Equalizer & MP3
10 Volume Booster – Loud Speaker & Sound Booster
11 Music Player – MP3 Player
12 CamCard for SalesForce Ent
13 Isoland 2: Ashes of Time Lite
14 Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
IS/APUS Security HD (Pad Version)
16 Parallel Space Lite 32 Support
17 Viva Video Editor – Snack Video Maker with Music
18 Nice video baidu
19 Tencent Xriver
20 Onmyoji Chess
21 Onmyoji Arena
22 AppLock
23 Dual Space Lite – Multiple Accounts & Clone App
24 Dual Space Pro – Multiple Accounts & App Cloner
25 DualSpace Lite – 32Bit Support
26 Dual Space – 32Bit Support
27 Dual Space – 64Bit Support
28 Dual Space Pro – 32Bit Support
29 Conquer Online – MMORPG Game
30 Conquer Online Il
31 Live Weather & Radar – Alerts
32 Notes- Color Notepad, Notebook
33 MP3 Cutter – Ringtone Maker & Audio Cutter
34 Voice Recorder & Voice Changer
35 Barcode Scanner – QR Code Scan
36 Lica Cam – selfie camera app
37 EVE Echoes
38 Astracraft
39 UU Game Booster-network solution for high ping
40 Extraordinary Ones
41 Badlanders
42 Stick Fight: The Game Mobile
43 Twilight Pioneers
44 CuteU: Match With The World
45 Small World-Enjoy groupchat and video chat
46 CuteU Pro
47 FancvU – Video Chat & Meetup
48 Real: Go Live. Make Friends
49 MoonChat: Enjoy Video Chats
50 Real Lite -video to live!
51 Wink: Connect Now
52 FunChat Meet People Around You
53 FancyU pro – Instant Meetup through Video chat!
54 Garena Free Fire – Illuminate