We monitor 217 Google Play storefronts to answer one question —
Is Ansaar Bazar censored by Google?
Ansaar Bazar is gone from every Google Play storefront we test. It was last seen available on Aug 31, 2024.
450 tests on record·last checked 5 days ago
Why it is unavailable
Five things can put an app out of one Google Play. Each is weighed below against what can be seen from outside — open a card for the reasoning.
A government or a court demanded it
and Google complied. Google publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Google’s Transparency Report
A local rule about paying for it
gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Google can obey every one of them by refusing the payment, which is why this is the only restriction we would accept and the only one that cannot touch a free app.
Google applied a rule, unasked
either its own review guidelines, or its own reading of a local law, with nobody having demanded anything. This is the largest category in Google’s own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Google kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Google’s Transparency Report
The developer withheld it
freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Google’s guidelines require that kind of app to be limited to certain countries. Switching a country off is easy for a developer to do in Google’s own tools: it needs no new version of the app, and it leaves no public trace other than the app being unavailable.
Something broke
a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.
- Gone for 1 years.
How this is weighed, and what it cannot tell you
Weighed from the evidence under each card, not from a model. There is no published figure for how Google’s removals divide up, so these are ordered words rather than percentages. For scale on the same-day counts: across the whole record an app leaves a storefront with fewer than two others, so a dozen at once is not a dozen coincidences.
None of this is certain, and a citation does not make it so: Google naming a Chinese agency tells you what Google said, not everything that happened. What can be said is that the readings alone cannot separate these five — a developer switching off a country and a government ordering it removed arrive at Google’s catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across Google Play. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Google does not emit.
Google publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which countries. Its Transparency Report counts the removal requests governments send it, across its products together, and names no app in any of them — so even the part it does disclose cannot be matched to a single thing missing from your store. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Google’s Transparency Report
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Ansaar Bazar
Developer: Alright Tech LLC · Released: Aug 31, 2024 ·
Life of this app
- Aug 31, 2024Released on Google Play
- Aug 31, 2024Last seen available anywhere
- Dec 16, 2024First tested by GooglePlayCensorship
- Apr 15, 2025Gone from 109 storefronts
- Sep 23, 2026Most recent test
Testing history
One column per month, every month from the first reading to the last. Height follows how many readings we took that month; red is the share of them that found the app unavailable. An empty month is one nobody tested.
Found availableFound unavailable
Availability by storefront
Every storefront we test, current status first. Data is a measurement, not a promise: each row carries its own date.
| Test now | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlbaniaAL↗ | Unavailable | Feb 6, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| Antigua & BarbudaAG↗ | Unavailable | Dec 16, 2024 | 12 months ago | ||
| AustraliaAU↗ | Unavailable | Mar 10, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| AustriaAT↗ | Unavailable | Jul 8, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| BahamasBS↗ | Unavailable | Mar 10, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| BangladeshBD↗ | Unavailable | Jun 29, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| BarbadosBB↗ | Unavailable | Jun 5, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| BelarusBY↗ | Unavailable | Mar 16, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| BelizeBZ↗ | Unavailable | Jun 28, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| BeninBJ↗ | Unavailable | Aug 31, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| BhutanBT↗ | Unavailable | May 18, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| BrazilBR↗ | Unavailable | Feb 28, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| British Virgin IslandsVG↗ | Unavailable | Mar 29, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| BruneiBN↗ | Unavailable | Jul 10, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| BulgariaBG↗ | Unavailable | Mar 28, 2025 | 6 months ago | ||
| Burkina FasoBF↗ | Unavailable | Jun 20, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| Caribbean NetherlandsBQ↗ | Unavailable | Feb 22, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| Cayman IslandsKY↗ | Unavailable | Dec 12, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| Central African RepublicCF↗ | Unavailable | Jun 29, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| ChadTD↗ | Unavailable | Oct 9, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| ChileCL↗ | Unavailable | Jun 20, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| China (Mainland)CN↗ | Unavailable | Dec 12, 2024 | 5 days ago | ||
| Christmas IslandCX↗ | Unavailable | Dec 22, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| ColombiaCO↗ | Unavailable | Jul 18, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| Cook IslandsCK↗ | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| Costa RicaCR↗ | Unavailable | Dec 22, 2024 | 7 months ago | ||
| CroatiaHR↗ | Unavailable | Apr 15, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| CuraçaoCW↗ | Unavailable | Mar 5, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| CyprusCY↗ | Unavailable | May 30, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| DenmarkDK↗ | Unavailable | Dec 23, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| EcuadorEC↗ | Unavailable | Jan 4, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| El SalvadorSV↗ | Unavailable | Feb 9, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| Equatorial GuineaGQ↗ | Unavailable | Feb 28, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| EritreaER↗ | Unavailable | Dec 30, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| EstoniaEE↗ | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| EswatiniSZ↗ | Unavailable | Oct 18, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| EthiopiaET↗ | Unavailable | Dec 23, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| Falkland IslandsFK↗ | Unavailable | Mar 17, 2025 | 5 days ago | ||
| FijiFJ↗ | Unavailable | Apr 14, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| GambiaGM↗ | Unavailable | Mar 28, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| GhanaGH↗ | Unavailable | Mar 4, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| GrenadaGD↗ | Unavailable | Apr 8, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| GuernseyGG↗ | Unavailable | Jul 15, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| Guinea-BissauGW↗ | Unavailable | Feb 6, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| GuyanaGY↗ | Unavailable | Jan 17, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| HondurasHN↗ | Unavailable | Mar 4, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| HungaryHU↗ | Unavailable | Jul 15, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| IcelandIS↗ | Unavailable | Jul 3, 2025 | 5 days ago | ||
| IndiaIN↗ | Unavailable | Jun 7, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| IraqIQ↗ | Unavailable | Oct 9, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| Isle of ManIM↗ | Unavailable | Feb 6, 2026 | 8 months ago | ||
| JerseyJE↗ | Unavailable | Apr 29, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| JordanJO↗ | Unavailable | May 12, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| KazakhstanKZ↗ | Unavailable | Nov 28, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| KuwaitKW↗ | Unavailable | Jul 5, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| LatviaLV↗ | Unavailable | Mar 29, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| LebanonLB↗ | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| LesothoLS↗ | Unavailable | Jul 5, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| LibyaLY↗ | Unavailable | Jul 18, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| LiechtensteinLI↗ | Unavailable | May 2, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| LuxembourgLU↗ | Unavailable | Apr 29, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| MacaoMO↗ | Unavailable | Apr 8, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| MalawiMW↗ | Unavailable | Mar 16, 2025 | 5 days ago | ||
| MalaysiaMY↗ | Unavailable | Sep 29, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| MaldivesMV↗ | Unavailable | Jun 19, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| MaltaMT↗ | Unavailable | Mar 29, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| MoldovaMD↗ | Unavailable | Mar 25, 2026 | 6 months ago | ||
| MontserratMS↗ | Unavailable | Jun 19, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| MozambiqueMZ↗ | Unavailable | Oct 10, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| NepalNP↗ | Unavailable | Apr 11, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| NetherlandsNL↗ | Unavailable | Sep 6, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| NicaraguaNI↗ | Unavailable | Jun 4, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| NiueNU↗ | Unavailable | Jan 3, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| North MacedoniaMK↗ | Unavailable | Dec 30, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| NorwayNO↗ | Unavailable | Dec 6, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| PanamaPA↗ | Unavailable | Sep 6, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| Papua New GuineaPG↗ | Unavailable | May 27, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| ParaguayPY↗ | Unavailable | Jan 3, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| PortugalPT↗ | Unavailable | Feb 28, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| QatarQA↗ | Unavailable | May 27, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| RussiaRU↗ | Unavailable | Dec 12, 2024 | 6 months ago | ||
| RwandaRW↗ | Unavailable | Feb 22, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| SamoaWS↗ | Unavailable | Jul 8, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| San MarinoSM↗ | Unavailable | Mar 5, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| SeychellesSC↗ | Unavailable | Jun 2, 2025 | 11 months ago | ||
| SloveniaSI↗ | Unavailable | Jan 4, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| Solomon IslandsSB↗ | Unavailable | Aug 7, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| South AfricaZA↗ | Unavailable | Feb 9, 2025 | 13 months ago | ||
| South KoreaKR↗ | Unavailable | Mar 15, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| SpainES↗ | Unavailable | Apr 11, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| St. HelenaSH↗ | Unavailable | Dec 12, 2024 | 14 months ago | ||
| SwedenSE↗ | Unavailable | Jun 7, 2025 | 16 months ago | ||
| SwitzerlandCH↗ | Unavailable | Jul 18, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| TaiwanTW↗ | Unavailable | Feb 28, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| TajikistanTJ↗ | Unavailable | Mar 15, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| TanzaniaTZ↗ | Unavailable | Sep 29, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| Timor-LesteTL↗ | Unavailable | Dec 16, 2024 | 15 months ago | ||
| TokelauTK↗ | Unavailable | Jul 17, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| TurkmenistanTM↗ | Unavailable | Nov 24, 2025 | 10 months ago | ||
| TuvaluTV↗ | Unavailable | Aug 6, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| UgandaUG↗ | Unavailable | Mar 16, 2025 | 14 months ago | ||
| United KingdomGB↗ | Unavailable | Sep 22, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| United StatesUS↗ | Unavailable | Dec 12, 2024 | 5 days ago | ||
| UruguayUY↗ | Unavailable | Jan 23, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| VanuatuVU↗ | Unavailable | Jul 11, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| Vatican CityVA↗ | Unavailable | Mar 29, 2025 | 12 months ago | ||
| Western SaharaEH↗ | Unavailable | Oct 11, 2025 | 7 months ago | ||
| YemenYE↗ | Unavailable | Jul 11, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| ZambiaZM↗ | Unavailable | Mar 4, 2025 | 15 months ago | ||
| AfghanistanAF↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AlgeriaDZ↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AndorraAD↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AngolaAO↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AnguillaAI↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArgentinaAR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArmeniaAM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ArubaAW↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| AzerbaijanAZ↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BahrainBH↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BelgiumBE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BermudaBM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BoliviaBO↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BotswanaBW↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| BurundiBI↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CambodiaKH↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CameroonCM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CanadaCA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Cape VerdeCV↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Cocos (Keeling) IslandsCC↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ComorosKM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Côte d’IvoireCI↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CubaCU↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| CzechiaCZ↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DjiboutiDJ↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DominicaDM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Dominican RepublicDO↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| DR CongoCD↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| EgyptEG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FinlandFI↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| FranceFR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GabonGA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GeorgiaGE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GermanyDE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GibraltarGI↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GreeceGR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GuatemalaGT↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| GuineaGN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| HaitiHT↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Hong KongHK↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IndonesiaID↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IranIR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IrelandIE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| IsraelIL↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ItalyIT↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JamaicaJM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| JapanJP↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KenyaKE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KiribatiKI↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KosovoXK↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| KyrgyzstanKG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LaosLA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LiberiaLR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| LithuaniaLT↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MadagascarMG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MaliML↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MauritaniaMR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MauritiusMU↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MexicoMX↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MicronesiaFM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MonacoMC↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MongoliaMN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MontenegroME↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| MoroccoMA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Myanmar (Burma)MM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NamibiaNA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NauruNR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| New ZealandNZ↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NigerNE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| NigeriaNG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Norfolk IslandNF↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| OmanOM↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PakistanPK↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Palestinian TerritoriesPS↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PeruPE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PhilippinesPH↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Pitcairn IslandsPN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| PolandPL↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Republic of the CongoCG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| RomaniaRO↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| São Tomé & PríncipeST↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Saudi ArabiaSA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SenegalSN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SerbiaRS↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Sierra LeoneSL↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SingaporeSG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SlovakiaSK↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SomaliaSO↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Sri LankaLK↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. Kitts & NevisKN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. LuciaLC↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SudanSD↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| SurinameSR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ThailandTH↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TogoTG↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TongaTO↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Trinidad & TobagoTT↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TunisiaTN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| TürkiyeTR↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| Turks & Caicos IslandsTC↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UkraineUA↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| United Arab EmiratesAE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| UzbekistanUZ↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VenezuelaVE↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| VietnamVN↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 | |
| ZimbabweZW↗ | Not tested | — | — | 0 |
Testing asks Google whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Google directly, so the answer describes what Google serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Google at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Google’s own answer and check ours. Readings are added to the record above; roughly a quarter of the readings taken each day come from people testing.
How we test
Availability is checked against Google’s own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way Google Play app asks. "Unavailable" means Google’s servers say the app cannot be offered in that country — it does not say who asked for the removal. Removals initiated by the developer and removals demanded by governments look the same from outside; the history and context on this page are how we tell them apart.