Google Play Store is a digital issue service operated and developed by Google. It distributes the official App Store for the devices which are running on the “Google-certified” Android operating system. It allows users to download and browse the applications which are developed by the Android Software Development Kit.
Google has removed 29 apps from the Play Store which don’t meet the recommendation. According to the report, the tech giant has now removed 29 more applications which are made up of agnostic. These apps can not be disclosed because of the out-of-context (OOC) ads. The reality that these all application get disappeared from the phone of the users after installing the app, it also helped them to support in the phone for a longer time.
These agnostic apps were disclosed by White Ops’ Satori threat intelligence team as a part of the “CHARTREUSEBLUR” examination. Most of the application which are been removed are photo edition apps, which helped users to free blur their photos.
These are the name of the application which are been removed from the Google Play Store:
- Auto Picture Cut
- Color Call Flash
- Square Photo Blur
- Square Blur Photo
- Magic Call Flash
- Smart Blur Photo
- Smart Photo Blur
- Super Call Flash
- Smart Call Flash
- Blur Photo Editor
- Blur Image
- Image Blur
- Auto Photo Blur
- Photo Blur
- Photo Blur Master
- Super Call Screen
- Square Blur
- Square Blur Master
- Easy Blur
More 10 applications are alternative of these with same of the names of the applications.
There are so many applications that have over 5,00,000 downloads on the Google Play Store. These applications have infected lots of cell phones all over the world. These 29 applications have been removed from the Google Play Store, but there might be more applications similar to these which are undiscovered yet by the Play Store. There can be new applications in the future to use.
The Satori team advised the users to go through the application and a few hints before downloading the applications. These all include checking the review of the application, to check if people are complaining about the app or not, also to see the number of people who have installed the app, the unwanted pop-up ads, also check that the app is getting disappeared from the phone or not. Everybody should also check the ratings of the application, the 5-star reviews. By reading the review you will get to know whether to download the application or not.
The company said, “Right after the launch, these applications open camera and show various options like flashlight, gallery, etc. But when the user chooses an option, these apps start full-screen ads, with no option to close or skip”.
