Google has stopped distributing advertisements in China for two websites that review VPN software, in a move that critics consider signals an effort by the American tech giant to curry favor with Beijing, said the Financial Times.
Last week, VPNMentor, a company that reviews virtual private network services that allow users to bypass China’s internet controls, said that Google had refused to sell its adverts to Chinese users, after doing so for more than two years. Top10VPN, another review site, said it had received the same notice after advertising with Google for several months.
VPNMentor posted a screenshot of an email to Twitter, appearing to be from Google, saying “it is currently Google policy to disallowed [sic] promoting VPN services in China, due to the local legal restrictions.”
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