We monitor 217 Google Play storefronts to answer one question —

Is france•tv : direct et replay censored by Google?

Yes.

Google offers france•tv : direct et replay in only 1 of the 217 Google Play countries it operates: France. 7.16B people cannot install it. It has been unavailable in India since Jun 18, 2025.

1,492 tests on record·⚠ last verified 11 months ago — treat as historical

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 2 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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france•tv : direct et replay

Developer: France Télévisions · Released: Aug 30, 2024 · Rating: 3.4★

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1stores where available
201stores where blocked
7.16Bpeople behind the block
202of 217 stores tested
1,492tests on record

Life of this app

  1. Aug 30, 2024Released on Google Play
  2. Aug 31, 2024First tested by GooglePlayCensorship
  3. Dec 16, 2024Gone from 201 storefronts
  4. Jun 30, 2025Last seen available anywhere
  5. Oct 23, 2025Most 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.

2024-082025-10

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