Published 22:38 IST, February 26th 2020

Google bans over 600 apps & their developers amidst Play Store crackdown

Recently, Google removed over 600 Android apps from its listings amidst the Play Store crackdown. It also banned the developers of those Android apps.

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Recently, Google plans to crack down on Android app developers who break app store rules by showing out-of-app vertisements. While doing so, y have banned over 600 Android apps from Play Store for breaking Google Play Store policy.

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Google bans over 600 Android apps amidst Play Store crackdown

Out-of-app vertisements are vertisements that originate from one app but appear on top of or apps or device’s home screen. users also do t have a clue about origin of apps.

new vertisement rules enforcement came after Google removed over 600 Android apps from play store and banned respective developers of apps. Google also banned developers of those Android apps from ir monetisation platforms like Google mob and Google Manr.

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second ban that has been imposed on developers of Android apps would prevent app makers from monetising ir apps even through third-party sources. Google’s senior product manr, Per Bjorke said that y intervened after y came to kw about new techniques used by developers of Android apps to show out-of-app vertisements to users.

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He also said that y have recently developed an invative machine-learning based approach to identify instances when apps show out-of-context s, leing to enforcement that y in-turn anunced.

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According to reports, Cheetah Mobile is one of names that was banned from Play Store for fraud. Reports say that Cheetah Mobile is one of biggest developers of Android apps in world. Earliest reports against Cheetah Mobile were filed in 2018, for indulging in some forms of fraud.

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Besides enactment of ban, Google also talked about its plans to crack down on vertisement rule infringers even furr. y also detailed a three-step plan to ensure that Android ecosystem and Play Store remain healthy. In three-step procedure, first step would be continuous crackdown of Android Apps and developers from Play Store.

n, Google said that y plan to publish better tools which let developers kw that re are some limits in which y tend to any Android users. In final step, Google mentioned that y are planning to change how Android OS works to cope with this new wave of out-of-app vertisements. However, Google did t elaborate on any of se changes.

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22:37 IST, February 26th 2020