Major Ethereum browser extension and wallet service Metamask has something to celebrate equally 2022 kicks off, notifying its users that Google has now reversed its brusk-lived ban on the browser add-on.

In a tweet posted on Jan. 1 2022, the MetaMask team revealed that:

"Upon careful consideration, Google has permitted The MetaMask mobile app back on the Google Play (Android) store! Thanks to all the believers in an open web for speaking out in our back up!"

Google mistook MetaMask for a mining app

MetaMask is a browser extension for Google Chrome that includes a born crypto wallet enabling to run Ethereum-based decentralized applications, or dApps, without needing to operate a full Ethereum node.

Google's u-turn comes but a week later it had suspended the MetaMask Android client on the Google Play App Store, reportedly citing its policy against apps that mine cryptocurrency on mobile devices (which notably doesn't pertain to MetaMask).

MetaMask had tweeted news of the ban on Dec. 26, calculation that its appeal had been rejected by Google Play.

In its new year thread, MetaMask thanked its users for having suggested alternative distribution methods during the Google blacklisting, maxim that the "experience has made u.s.a. more resilient, and as a community, we are stronger for enduring it."

Squad pressures

As reported in tardily December, a MetaMask contributor has recently declared that the MetaMask team is "totally overwhelmed" and is non existence adequately supported by its parent firm ConsenSys.

The correspondent further claimed that the MetaMask team's workflow was neither transparent nor decentralized, and alleged that the project's code was "of low quality, full of technical debt."

In response, MetaMask employee Daniel Finlay refuted what he characterized every bit the "inflammatory and alarmist" tone of someone who was non a total-fledged squad member, though he conceded the accurateness of some of the contributor'due south criticisms — specially in regards to the projection's code.

In his rebuttal, Finlay added that MetaMask was "incredibly grateful to ConsenSys and Joe [Lubin]" for its support of the project.

Winter censorship

Aslope Google, YouTube was last month in the center of a crypto-related censorship controversy — one that it and so swiftly backtracked on, admitting its "error."