Uc browser vanishes from google play store

UC Browser vanishes from Google Play Store

UC Browser vanishes from Google Play Store on Business Standard. UC Browser app designed by UCWeb is taken down from Google Play Store. It has 500 million downloads with 420 million users. UC Web's affiliates are using malicious redirect ads to inflate installs.

Latest News UC Browser, a mobile browser app designed by China-based UCWeb -- backed by Alibaba group, is reportedly taken down from the Google Play Store. The browser had almost 500 million downloads across the globe with over 420 million users.

The browser is quite popular in India with a user base of almost 100 million. The delisting of app has seen no response from UCWeb or Google and, therefore, is reported to be a temporary delisting. However, an email received by Android Police founder -- an online technology news portal – states that the UC Web’s affiliates are using malicious redirect ads to inflate installs. This may have prompted Google to delist the browser.

Here is a snippet of the e-mail shared by Android Police founder on Reddit: Another Twitter user named Mike Ross, who claims to works with UC Browser posted a tweet confirming that the app was taken down for a similar reason.

Mike wrote, “I work for UC Browser, I got mail today morning it said that UC Browser was temporarily removed from play store for 30 days because it used “Misleading” and “Unhealthy” methods of promotion to increase installs.”

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