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Disconnect Mobile (also known as Disconnect.me) is an open source Android and iPhone application developed by the Disconnect.me team (Brian Kennish and Casey Oppenheim) designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers on those platforms, and providing private web search and private web browsing solutions. As of 2015, Disconnect-Search is the default search engine of the security-focused Tor Browser. Electronic Frontier Foundation compared this app to its own Privacy Badger browser plugin. The app was banned from the Google Play Store five days after its release in late August 2014. Google cited a violation of its Terms of Service which prohibit developers from using its store "to distribute apps that interfere with or disrupt the services of any third party". This, however, attracted criticism from parties such as EFF (and Disconnect itself) which saw this app as privacy-friendly, and argue that Google motivations are primarily based on the fact that this app interferes with ad-based revenue models of numerous companies, including Google itself. The app was restored to the Google Play Store two weeks after its initial banning, before being banned for a second time overnight. In June 2015, Disconnect filed an antitrust complaint against Google.

Aptoide is a distributed marketplace for mobile applications which runs on the Android operating system. In Aptoide, unlike the default Google Play Store, there is not a unique and centralized store but each user manages their own store. The Android application used to access the stores is open source, and there are several forks such as F-Droid The communication between the client and servers is done using an open protocol based on XML. The concept is inspired by the APT packaging manager, which can work with multiple sources (repositories). When the user wants a package, they use the client to search for sources where the application is stored. The name Aptoide is formed from the words "APT" (the Debian package manager) and "oide" (the last syllable of "Android").