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    24 hours ago

    One of my favourite apps (Zen colouring) has been removed from my phone because Google flagged it as unsafe. Booooo.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah that happened to me tonight too. My husband bypassed the restriction. Tbh I don’t know what he did. I pointed and said “fix it”.

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        23 hours ago

        I might give it a few days to hopefully solve itself, seen a few comments about it being because of an ad. Given it seems the devs have been rolling out new features I hope they can work it out.

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          23 hours ago

          I think it was a weight loss ad. When you try to skip the ad, it directs you to their website. The ad itself was a bit odd too. It was a bit fat shamie.

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            13 hours ago

            I paid to remove ads ages ago, but fuck me it’s annoying so invasive some ads are and how they try and trick you into things. Like fuck offffff, maybe come up with a legitimate product and people might be interested!

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              13 hours ago

              Right. I only get ads in between pictures or if I choose to watch ads for points.

              I can ask my husband later what he did to get it started again if you like. I just need to know what device you use. I use my Samsung tablet. He asked me if I do any banking on it which the answer was no. He said that’s fine and over rid something and it started working again. Hope that makes sense. Lol.

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                12 hours ago

                Makes total sense, thank you!! I use it on my phone, with which I do do banking, soooo maybe I’ll just wait and hope it comes back, lol. I think I had it on my little tablet as well which doesn’t do anything important so I can maybe over ride it on that. It’ll be fine. Thank you!!!

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      23 hours ago

      I miss simple games. There used to be lots of little basic games with endless levels without a million ads, bouncing pop ups every turn, endless in game purchase etc. I just want something calming I can play for 15min while I have my coffee. There’s a gap in the market. I guess it must be unprofitable.

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        23 hours ago

        Flight Control
        Plants vs. Zombies
        Peggle
        Angry Birds (original one)
        Fieldrunners
        Asphalt 6
        Jetpack Joyride
        Doodle Jump

        I actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.

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            22 hours ago

            Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.

            I’ve just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.

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                6 hours ago

                Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I’d have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.

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      24 hours ago

      You might be able to install it directly if you can find the apk install file. I had to do that with ghost commander, which is a file browser.