Several VPN apps, including Cloudflare's widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in India.

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs has prompted the removal of over half a dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s popular 1.1.1.1, from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. This action, aimed at enforcing the country’s 2022 VPN regulations,

Indian law now requires VPN apps to maintain customers’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and transaction histories for five years.

More than half-a-dozen VPN apps, including popular services like Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, have been removed from India's Apple App Store and Google Play Store following government intervention, reported TechCrunch.

The Chinese government has long banned the use of VPN apps, which many of its citizens used to avoid government surveillance of their online activities. Back in 2017, Apple was forced to remove hundreds of VPN apps from the Chinese App Store,