We monitor 217 Google Play storefronts to answer one question —

Is La Méridionale censored by Google?

Gone.

La Méridionale is gone from every Google Play storefront we test. It was last seen available on Aug 31, 2024.

1,635 tests on record·last checked 11 hours 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 itPossible

    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 itPossible

    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, unaskedPossible

    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 itPossible

    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 brokeUnlikely

    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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La Méridionale

Developer: La Méridionale · Released: Aug 31, 2024 ·

View in Google Play ↗
0stores where available
199stores where blocked
7.42Bpeople behind the block
199of 217 stores tested
1,635tests on record

Life of this app

  1. Aug 31, 2024Released on Google Play
  2. Aug 31, 2024Last seen available anywhere
  3. Jan 10, 2025First tested by GooglePlayCensorship
  4. Feb 17, 2025Gone from 199 storefronts
  5. Sep 28, 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.

2024-082026-09

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.

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AfghanistanAF↗UnavailableMay 17, 20256 months ago
AlbaniaAL↗UnavailableFeb 6, 202511 months ago
AndorraAD↗UnavailableJan 10, 202515 months ago
AnguillaAI↗UnavailableMar 28, 202514 months ago
Antigua & BarbudaAG↗UnavailableApr 13, 202513 months ago
ArgentinaAR↗UnavailableMar 17, 202511 months ago
ArmeniaAM↗UnavailableApr 13, 202512 months ago
ArubaAW↗UnavailableDec 30, 202414 months ago
AustraliaAU↗UnavailableMar 19, 20252 days ago
AustriaAT↗UnavailableFeb 13, 202514 months ago
AzerbaijanAZ↗UnavailableMar 8, 202515 months ago
BahamasBS↗UnavailableJan 20, 202512 months ago
BahrainBH↗UnavailableFeb 17, 202516 months ago
BangladeshBD↗UnavailableMay 14, 202510 months ago
BarbadosBB↗UnavailableMar 27, 202513 months ago
BelarusBY↗UnavailableMar 7, 202516 months ago
BelgiumBE↗UnavailableFeb 6, 202516 months ago
BelizeBZ↗UnavailableJan 5, 20257 months ago
BeninBJ↗UnavailableDec 30, 202414 months ago
BermudaBM↗UnavailableJan 12, 20252 days ago
BhutanBT↗UnavailableMar 9, 20257 months ago
BoliviaBO↗UnavailableDec 15, 202412 months ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA↗UnavailableMay 27, 20258 months ago
BotswanaBW↗UnavailableDec 29, 20248 months ago
BrazilBR↗UnavailableFeb 17, 202513 months ago
British Virgin IslandsVG↗UnavailableFeb 23, 202510 months ago
BruneiBN↗UnavailableMar 1, 202514 months ago
BulgariaBG↗UnavailableFeb 10, 20252 days ago
BurundiBI↗UnavailableDec 31, 20245 days ago
CambodiaKH↗UnavailableFeb 4, 202515 months ago
Cape VerdeCV↗UnavailableDec 30, 202413 months ago
Caribbean NetherlandsBQ↗UnavailableMar 29, 20258 months ago
Cayman IslandsKY↗UnavailableFeb 10, 202516 months ago
Central African RepublicCF↗UnavailableDec 15, 20246 months ago
ChadTD↗UnavailableMay 12, 20257 months ago
ChileCL↗UnavailableDec 30, 202412 months ago
China (Mainland)CN↗UnavailableDec 15, 202411 hours ago
Christmas IslandCX↗UnavailableDec 18, 202411 months ago
Cocos (Keeling) IslandsCC↗UnavailableMay 30, 202512 months ago
ColombiaCO↗UnavailableSep 14, 202510 months ago
ComorosKM↗UnavailableJan 8, 20258 months ago
Cook IslandsCK↗UnavailableFeb 10, 202512 months ago
Costa RicaCR↗UnavailableMar 8, 202513 months ago
Côte d’IvoireCI↗UnavailableMar 1, 20252 days ago
CroatiaHR↗UnavailableFeb 4, 202512 months ago
CubaCU↗UnavailableMar 11, 202515 months ago
CuraçaoCW↗UnavailableMar 20, 20252 days ago
CyprusCY↗UnavailableMar 22, 202512 months ago
CzechiaCZ↗UnavailableMar 30, 202511 months ago
DenmarkDK↗UnavailableJan 12, 202512 months ago
DjiboutiDJ↗UnavailableDec 26, 202414 months ago
DominicaDM↗UnavailableJan 8, 20258 months ago
Dominican RepublicDO↗UnavailableMar 1, 20257 months ago
DR CongoCD↗UnavailableDec 18, 202415 months ago
EcuadorEC↗UnavailableFeb 17, 202514 months ago
EgyptEG↗UnavailableMar 29, 20259 months ago
El SalvadorSV↗UnavailableDec 30, 202410 months ago
Equatorial GuineaGQ↗UnavailableJan 2, 20259 months ago
EritreaER↗UnavailableApr 3, 202516 months ago
EswatiniSZ↗UnavailableApr 25, 202513 months ago
EthiopiaET↗UnavailableJan 20, 202516 months ago
Falkland IslandsFK↗UnavailableJan 27, 202510 months ago
FijiFJ↗UnavailableJan 2, 20259 months ago
FinlandFI↗UnavailableMay 26, 202516 months ago
FranceFR↗UnavailableMay 22, 202511 hours ago
GabonGA↗UnavailableFeb 4, 202515 months ago
GambiaGM↗UnavailableMar 9, 202515 months ago
GeorgiaGE↗UnavailableFeb 8, 202512 months ago
GermanyDE↗UnavailableFeb 17, 202516 months ago
GhanaGH↗UnavailableJan 18, 202510 months ago
GibraltarGI↗UnavailableJan 3, 202513 months ago
GreeceGR↗UnavailableMar 19, 202514 months ago
GrenadaGD↗UnavailableMay 2, 202512 months ago
GuernseyGG↗UnavailableApr 28, 202514 months ago
GuineaGN↗UnavailableAug 7, 202513 months ago
Guinea-BissauGW↗UnavailableFeb 6, 202510 months ago
GuyanaGY↗UnavailableDec 19, 20249 months ago
HaitiHT↗UnavailableMar 12, 20257 months ago
HondurasHN↗UnavailableDec 15, 202414 months ago
Hong KongHK↗UnavailableDec 15, 20245 days ago
HungaryHU↗UnavailableMay 13, 202511 hours ago
IcelandIS↗UnavailableApr 24, 202511 months ago
IndiaIN↗UnavailableSep 28, 202512 months ago
IndonesiaID↗UnavailableFeb 23, 202510 months ago
IranIR↗UnavailableFeb 24, 202515 months ago
IraqIQ↗UnavailableApr 13, 202513 months ago
IrelandIE↗UnavailableDec 26, 202413 months ago
Isle of ManIM↗UnavailableJun 23, 20257 months ago
JamaicaJM↗UnavailableFeb 2, 202516 months ago
JerseyJE↗UnavailableJun 14, 202513 months ago
JordanJO↗UnavailableJan 23, 202510 months ago
KazakhstanKZ↗UnavailableApr 14, 202512 months ago
KenyaKE↗UnavailableJan 15, 202510 months ago
KiribatiKI↗UnavailableFeb 6, 202515 months ago
KosovoXK↗UnavailableJan 2, 202512 months ago
KuwaitKW↗UnavailableMar 18, 20257 months ago
KyrgyzstanKG↗UnavailableDec 15, 20247 months ago
LaosLA↗UnavailableFeb 21, 202515 months ago
LatviaLV↗UnavailableFeb 4, 202512 months ago
LebanonLB↗UnavailableJan 27, 20259 months ago
LesothoLS↗UnavailableJan 10, 202510 months ago
LiberiaLR↗UnavailableMar 10, 202515 months ago
LibyaLY↗UnavailableAug 23, 202513 months ago
LiechtensteinLI↗UnavailableJan 10, 202510 months ago
LithuaniaLT↗UnavailableJun 28, 202513 months ago
LuxembourgLU↗UnavailableApr 19, 20252 days ago
MadagascarMG↗UnavailableDec 17, 202414 months ago
MalawiMW↗UnavailableJan 2, 202513 months ago
MalaysiaMY↗UnavailableJul 28, 202513 months ago
MaldivesMV↗UnavailableJul 31, 20257 months ago
MaltaMT↗UnavailableJan 15, 20258 months ago
MauritaniaMR↗UnavailableDec 18, 20249 months ago
MauritiusMU↗UnavailableFeb 17, 202516 months ago
MexicoMX↗UnavailableSep 14, 202512 months ago
MicronesiaFM↗UnavailableMar 9, 202515 months ago
MoldovaMD↗UnavailableOct 6, 202512 months ago
MonacoMC↗UnavailableMar 15, 202510 months ago
MongoliaMN↗UnavailableApr 4, 202516 months ago
MontenegroME↗UnavailableJan 17, 202515 months ago
MontserratMS↗UnavailableMar 27, 202513 months ago
MoroccoMA↗UnavailableFeb 4, 202516 months ago
MozambiqueMZ↗UnavailableMar 13, 202512 months ago
Myanmar (Burma)MM↗UnavailableMay 14, 20256 months ago
NamibiaNA↗UnavailableJan 16, 202511 hours ago
NauruNR↗UnavailableJan 6, 20259 months ago
NetherlandsNL↗UnavailableMar 15, 202513 months ago
New ZealandNZ↗UnavailableJul 13, 202514 months ago
NicaraguaNI↗UnavailableDec 19, 202414 months ago
NigerNE↗UnavailableApr 13, 202512 months ago
NigeriaNG↗UnavailableMar 28, 202514 months ago
NiueNU↗UnavailableMay 20, 20259 months ago
Norfolk IslandNF↗UnavailableOct 6, 202512 months ago
NorwayNO↗UnavailableJan 30, 202511 months ago
OmanOM↗UnavailableDec 15, 202412 months ago
PakistanPK↗UnavailableSep 26, 202512 months ago
Palestinian TerritoriesPS↗UnavailableMar 10, 202516 months ago
PanamaPA↗UnavailableMay 21, 202510 months ago
ParaguayPY↗UnavailableJun 23, 202515 months ago
PeruPE↗UnavailableJun 16, 202513 months ago
PhilippinesPH↗UnavailableDec 15, 202415 months ago
Pitcairn IslandsPN↗UnavailableJan 16, 202510 months ago
PolandPL↗UnavailableJun 30, 202513 months ago
PortugalPT↗UnavailableDec 28, 202410 months ago
QatarQA↗UnavailableJan 23, 202514 months ago
Republic of the CongoCG↗UnavailableJan 1, 202512 months ago
RomaniaRO↗UnavailableDec 18, 202412 months ago
RussiaRU↗UnavailableDec 15, 20248 months ago
RwandaRW↗UnavailableDec 31, 202414 months ago
SamoaWS↗UnavailableJul 27, 202512 months ago
San MarinoSM↗UnavailableDec 19, 20247 months ago
São Tomé & PríncipeST↗UnavailableDec 25, 202412 months ago
SenegalSN↗UnavailableFeb 4, 20258 months ago
SerbiaRS↗UnavailableApr 13, 202512 months ago
SeychellesSC↗UnavailableSep 25, 202512 months ago
Sierra LeoneSL↗UnavailableDec 28, 202411 months ago
SingaporeSG↗UnavailableMay 2, 202510 months ago
SlovakiaSK↗UnavailableApr 4, 202513 months ago
SloveniaSI↗UnavailableApr 24, 202511 months ago
Solomon IslandsSB↗UnavailableJul 19, 202513 months ago
SomaliaSO↗UnavailableDec 25, 202414 months ago
South AfricaZA↗UnavailableDec 17, 202412 months ago
South KoreaKR↗UnavailableJun 23, 202515 months ago
SpainES↗UnavailableMar 18, 20256 months ago
Sri LankaLK↗UnavailableFeb 7, 20268 months ago
St. HelenaSH↗UnavailableDec 30, 20248 months ago
St. Kitts & NevisKN↗UnavailableApr 7, 202516 months ago
St. LuciaLC↗UnavailableApr 26, 202511 months ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVC↗UnavailableFeb 2, 20258 months ago
SudanSD↗UnavailableSep 10, 202513 months ago
SurinameSR↗UnavailableJan 22, 202514 months ago
SwedenSE↗UnavailableJan 23, 202516 months ago
SwitzerlandCH↗UnavailableFeb 4, 202511 months ago
TaiwanTW↗UnavailableJan 27, 202515 months ago
TajikistanTJ↗UnavailableDec 25, 202410 months ago
TanzaniaTZ↗UnavailableDec 19, 202416 months ago
Timor-LesteTL↗UnavailableJan 25, 20258 months ago
TogoTG↗UnavailableJan 15, 20256 days ago
TokelauTK↗UnavailableJan 15, 202516 months ago
TongaTO↗UnavailableJan 27, 202514 months ago
Trinidad & TobagoTT↗UnavailableJan 5, 20255 days ago
TunisiaTN↗UnavailableMay 6, 202512 months ago
TürkiyeTR↗UnavailableJan 10, 202516 months ago
TurkmenistanTM↗UnavailableFeb 8, 202516 months ago
Turks & Caicos IslandsTC↗UnavailableApr 28, 202514 months ago
TuvaluTV↗UnavailableDec 29, 202412 months ago
UgandaUG↗UnavailableJan 21, 202516 months ago
UkraineUA↗UnavailableApr 18, 202512 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAE↗UnavailableMay 7, 20256 months ago
United KingdomGB↗UnavailableJan 2, 202512 months ago
United StatesUS↗UnavailableDec 15, 202411 hours ago
UruguayUY↗UnavailableDec 25, 20247 months ago
UzbekistanUZ↗UnavailableApr 24, 202514 months ago
Vatican CityVA↗UnavailableMar 29, 202514 months ago
VenezuelaVE↗UnavailableMar 29, 202513 months ago
VietnamVN↗UnavailableDec 15, 20246 days ago
Western SaharaEH↗UnavailableMay 6, 202513 months ago
YemenYE↗UnavailableMar 1, 202515 months ago
ZambiaZM↗UnavailableMar 16, 20266 months ago
ZimbabweZW↗UnavailableJun 23, 202515 months ago
AlgeriaDZ↗Not tested——0
AngolaAO↗Not tested——0
Burkina FasoBF↗Not tested——0
CameroonCM↗Not tested——0
CanadaCA↗Not tested——0
EstoniaEE↗Not tested——0
GuatemalaGT↗Not tested——0
IsraelIL↗Not tested——0
ItalyIT↗Not tested——0
JapanJP↗Not tested——0
MacaoMO↗Not tested——0
MaliML↗Not tested——0
NepalNP↗Not tested——0
North MacedoniaMK↗Not tested——0
Papua New GuineaPG↗Not tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSA↗Not tested——0
ThailandTH↗Not tested——0
VanuatuVU↗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.