Google’s enforcement actions against shady Android apps and developers come at such a regular pace these days that it’s starting to be hard to keep track of all the bans and violators. There’s just so many — and today, Google added to the pile, with a major crackdown that includes kicking almost 600 apps out of the Play Store. Google hasn’t as of the time of this writing identified which specific apps were part of this enforcement, which seems largely to have focused on ad fraud, though Per Bjorke, Google’s senior product manager for ad traffic quality, has said the apps were mostly games and utilities.
Unfortunately, this action comes after the apps had collectively garnered more than 4.5 billion installs.
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Millions of people have downloaded shady Android apps that Google just banned originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 16:35:39 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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