Google bans 600 apps from Play Store
Recently google banned nearly 600 apps from play store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating advertising guidelines.
The company disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions," such as a full-screen ad served when attempting to make a phone call.
Goggle didn't name the apps in which apps were blocked but apps were installed more than 4.5 million times the primary target was English -speaking users apps that were developed based on China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India, according to Buzzfeed news.
TROUBLE IN GOOGLE PLAY STORE
This is not the first time adware apps have been removed from the Google Play Store. Back in 2018, Cheetah Mobile was accused of turning smartphones into stealthy click farms to engage in ad fraud, leading Google to ban a bunch of its apps from the Play Store.
Then last year, it banned app developer Do Global and CooTek from the Play Store and its ad platforms for similar ad policy violations.
Google has a strict policy with regards to adware and disruptive ads in general. "We don't allow apps that contain deceptive or disruptive ads. Ads must only be displayed within the app serving them. We consider ads served in your app as part of your app. The ads shown in your app must be compliant with all our policies."
The internet giant has also been leveraging Google Play Protect as a means to secure devices from potentially harmful applications by combining a mix of on-device protections and a cloud-based machine learning infrastructure to routinely scan apps, detect malicious apps faster and at a larger scale without any human supervision.
But the app storefront has come under criticism in recent months for its failure to rein in malware-laced apps, which have been installed by millions of users without realizing their insidious nature.
The company disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions," such as a full-screen ad served when attempting to make a phone call.
Goggle didn't name the apps in which apps were blocked but apps were installed more than 4.5 million times the primary target was English -speaking users apps that were developed based on China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India, according to Buzzfeed news.
TROUBLE IN GOOGLE PLAY STORE
This is not the first time adware apps have been removed from the Google Play Store. Back in 2018, Cheetah Mobile was accused of turning smartphones into stealthy click farms to engage in ad fraud, leading Google to ban a bunch of its apps from the Play Store.
Then last year, it banned app developer Do Global and CooTek from the Play Store and its ad platforms for similar ad policy violations.
Google has a strict policy with regards to adware and disruptive ads in general. "We don't allow apps that contain deceptive or disruptive ads. Ads must only be displayed within the app serving them. We consider ads served in your app as part of your app. The ads shown in your app must be compliant with all our policies."
The internet giant has also been leveraging Google Play Protect as a means to secure devices from potentially harmful applications by combining a mix of on-device protections and a cloud-based machine learning infrastructure to routinely scan apps, detect malicious apps faster and at a larger scale without any human supervision.
But the app storefront has come under criticism in recent months for its failure to rein in malware-laced apps, which have been installed by millions of users without realizing their insidious nature.
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