Shedding Light on Mobile App Store Censorship

This is the git repository with the measurements and data during our research on the paper Shedding Light on Mobile App Store Censorship.

Repository file structure

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├── AppStoreCensorship.pdf           - The published report
├── docs/                            - Presentation files and notes
├── LICENSE.md                       - License file
├── README.md                        - This documentation file
├── gplay                            - Google Play Store measurements
├── gplay_app.js                     - Google Play app ID search script
├── gplay_search.js                  - Google Play app keyword search script
├── itunes                           - iTunes App Store measurements
├── itunes-unavailable-coutries.list - iTunes unavailable list of countries
├── itunes_app.js                    - iTunes app ID search script
├── itunes_search.js                 - iTunes app keyword search script
├── ooni                             - OONI measurements and scripts
├── query_stores-itunes-id.sh        - Query script using iTunes API
├── query_stores.sh                  - Query script for all App Stores
└── tencent                          - Tencent MyApp Store measurements
    └── apk                          - Tencent MyApp apk files

Reading the paper

You can read the complete paper here: AppStoreCensorship.pdf

Citing the paper

Vasilis Ververis, Marios Isaakidis, Valentin Weber, and Benjamin Fabian. 2019.
Shedding Light on Mobile App Store Censorship. In 27th Conference on User
Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Adjunct (UMAP’19 Adjunct), June 9–12,
2019, Larnaca, Cyprus. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3314183.3324965

Presentation

The paper has been presented at ACM UMAP, APPS2019 on June the 9th, 2019.

The presentation can be found on the following link: https://hack66.github.io/appavail

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License