Google removed 600 apps from Play Store, this is the reason

Google Play Store has removed nearly 600 Android apps that show “harmful” ads. The company gave this information through a blog post on Thursday. Along with announcing the removal of the apps, the search engine giant has also revealed that it has also banned these apps on its advertising monetization platforms Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. This has been done due to these apps violating Google’s advertising policies and rejecting interstate policies. Mobile advertising fraud has increased significantly in recent times due to the increase in smartphone adoption.

According to Google, harmful ads are served to users in unexpected ways, including disrupting or interfering with the usability of the device. Explaining this in clear words, Google has said that these ads pop up in a special way, due to which they get clicked inadvertently and did not even provide a clear means to dismiss these ads. goes.

Google says that this is a wrong maneuver, due to which the smartphone experience of users is bad. Google It claims that the company has a special machine learning method to check the apps showing such false ads. Further, the company has also said that the company is planning to introduce new technologies to detect and prevent the threats caused by apps that receive illegal traffic through false advertisements.

Bjorke told BuzzFeed News told is that Google Play Store The apps that have been removed were created primarily by developers based in China, Hong Kong, India and Singapore. However, the names of these applications and developers have not been disclosed.

Let us tell you that similarly in July last year, Google had banned Chinese developer CoTTek for sending harmful advertisements using an adware plugin even when the app was not in use.