Web Desk (January 31, 2018): Google announced that Google Play took action against “bad apps” by eliminating apps and developer accounts from the platform.
The tech giant claims to have used machine learning to identify bad apps with identifiers like impersonation, inappropriate content, and malware to root out over 700,000 apps and 100,000 developers, which is a 70 percent jump from the preceding year.
“In fact, 99 percent of apps with abusive contents were identified and rejected before anyone could install them,” was a claim mentioned on Android Developers Blog.
Google, on its Android Developers Blog, states that impersonators or ‘copycats’ are the most common red signal for removing apps from Google Play. the Mountain View giant removed as much as 250,000 apps that were caught impersonating big titles.
The impersonators carried out this practice through deceptive methods such as “confusable Unicode characters or hiding impersonating app icons in a different locale.
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