From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Disconnect files EU anti-trust complaint against Google.

Disconnect Inc., a company that makes privacy protecting software, is fighting back after its Android apps were pulled from Google’s Play store.

Disconnect’s mobile app is designed to prevent non-consensual third-party trackers from collecting detailed profiles of how you use your Android phone (much like EFF’s Privacy Badger does in Firefox or Chrome). Additionally, whenever an app on your phone tries to download malvertising (malware distributed using advertising networks, including Google’s Doubleclick network and others), Disconnect intercepts the request and blocks it. Disconnect is even one of the few apps to protect against both Verizon’s injected IDs and Turn’s resultant ‘zombie cookies’. However Google has removed Disconnect from the Play store, claiming it violates their terms of service—specifically a section which forbids the distribution of apps that interfere with or disrupt the services of any third party.

As we’ve explained before, Google seems to be enforcing this clause in order to put its own profits ahead of the privacy of its users. By banning Disconnect Google has effectively said that users don’t get to control what data their phones transmit to third parties, if that control depends on apps distributed through the Play store. [continue]

I use and like Disconnect. Google’s behaviour here annoys me very, very much.