Google updates Play Store policy to address issues with intrusive ads, VPNs and more
2 years, 4 months ago

Google updates Play Store policy to address issues with intrusive ads, VPNs and more

The Hindu  

Google updated its Play Store policies that aim to address issues with intrusive ads, VPNs, misinformation, impersonation of brands and child abuse among others. The company will no longer allow full screen interstitial ads of all formats like video, GIF, static that show unexpectedly, when the user has chosen to do something else. The company will not allow apps that mislead users by impersonating someone else like another developer, company, entity and another app or falsely pretending to be affiliated to the government. Apps that use the VPNService must document use of the VPNService in the Google Play listing, and must encrypt the data from the device to VPN tunnel end point.

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Beware Android users some Google Play Store apps are infected with spyware, uninstall them right now
1 year, 6 months ago

Beware Android users some Google Play Store apps are infected with spyware, uninstall them right now

India Today  

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Google prevented 1.43 million apps from entering Play Store for policy violation
1 year, 7 months ago

Google prevented 1.43 million apps from entering Play Store for policy violation

Live Mint  

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Google to add privacy labels to Play Store apps
3 years, 7 months ago

Google to add privacy labels to Play Store apps

The Hindu  

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