India’s 2nd Digital surgical strike

 

India’s 2^nd Digital surgical strike

 

Garena Free Fire, 53 other Chinese apps banned by the Indian government as a powerful move:

In an energetic blow to apps which where in hands of foreign companies also obstructed them through app stores. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has unleashed a list of 54 apps that were proposed for ban and attractively. It includes Garena Free Fire it’s a battle royale game owned by Singapore-based Sea Ltd. The government point of view on this “power to issue directions for interference are monitoring and decoding of any information and privacy issues through any computer resource.”

While the list includes photo editing, video editing, app cloning apps, but the big game with most downloads in India among young generation is Garena Free Fire. After the ban on PUBG Mobile in 2020 which threw a twist in India’s mobile gaming industry that’s when Garena came into popularity. Nearly a year later, Krafton launched Battlegrounds Mobile India as a censored version of PUBG Mobile, summiting that the game has no Chinese connection.

The ban on Garena Free Fire, Nowhere applies to the publisher’s second game called Garena Free Fire Max. At the time of ban event, Garena Free Fire Max was available on Play Store. At the same time, the list of banned apps unleashed by the government does not included Free Fire Max either. However, Apple expelled both Free Fire and Free Fire Max from the iOS app store in India.

 

 

Here is the whole list of banned apps:

 

1. Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD

2. Beauty Camera Selfie Camera

3. Equalizer Bass Booster

4. Music Player- Music.Mp3 Player

5. Music Volume EQ

6. Music MP3 Player

7. Pro Volume Booster

8. Video Player Media All Format

9. Music Player Equalizer & MP3

10. Loud Speaker Booster

11. Music Player MP3 Player

12. CamCard for SalesForce Ent

13. Isoland 2: Ashes of Time Lite

14. Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade

15. APUS Security HD (Pad Version)

16. Parallel Space Lite 32 Support

17. Viva Video Editor

18. Nice video baidu

19. Tencent Xriver

20. Onmyoji Chess

21. Onmyoji Arena

22. AppLock

23. Dual Space Lite

24. Pro Multiple Accounts & App Cloner

25. DualSpace Lite 32Bit Support

26. Dual Space 32Bit Support

27. Dual Space 64Bit Support

28. Dual Space Pro 32Bit Support

29. Conquer Online MMORPG Game

30. Conquer Online Il

31. Live Weather & Radar Alerts

32. Notes- Color Notepad, Notebook

33. Audio Cutter

34. Voice Recorder & Voice Changer

35. Barcode Scanner QR Code Scan

36. Lica Cam selfie camera app

37. EVE Echoes

38. Astracraft

39. UU Game Booster

40. Extraordinary Ones

41. Badlanders

42. Stick Fight: The Game Mobile

43. Twilight Pioneers

44. CuteU: Match With The World

45. Small World-Enjoy groupchat and video chat

46. CuteU Pro

47. FancvU Video Chat & Meetup

48. Real: Go Live. Make Friends

49. MoonChat: Enjoy Video Chats

50. Real Lite -video to live!

51. Wink: Connect Now

52. FunChat Meet People Around You

53. Fancy pro Instant Meetup through Video chat!

54. Garena Free Fire Illuminate