UC Browser has vanished from the Google Play store. The Alibaba owned versatile program, which accumulated more than 500 million downloads a month ago and has more than 100 million clients in India, is not any more noticeable on search – however other UCWeb applications – UC Browser mini and UC News – still are.
The advancement rises a long time after the Chinese application had been blamed for sending individual information of its Indian clients to a server in China, and it’s vague until further notice what the purpose behind the expulsion is.
The expulsion of UC Browser from Google Play was spotted by clients and detailed late on Tuesday. Android Police originator Artem Russakovskii likewise posted the content of an email that he got from UC Union (UCWeb’s offshoot arrange) that recommends some contention amongst Google and UCWeb. The UC Union email, which was said to be coursed on November 9, cautions accomplices to forsake “all misleading/malicious advertising”ways that are being utilized to obtain new clients.
Mike Ross, the man who claims to work for UC Browser, tweeted that the browser is“temporarily removed” from the Play Store for 30 days due to adopting “misleading” and “unhealthy” methods of increasing installs. We’ve reached out to Google and UCWeb for clarity and will update this space accordingly.
By and by, hunting down UC Program on Google Play brings UC Program Smaller than usual, which is the lightweight portable program by UCWeb. The authority UCWeb website has given a connection to sideload the UC Program application through its APK document, however.
In August, a few media reports had surfaced that uncovered a test against UC Program for sending client points of interest and area information to a remote server. The administration was even set to boycott the program if the Chinese program was discovered blameworthy. Be that as it may, UCWeb had discharged an announcement guaranteeing security and protection of clients at its need. “We have strong measures in place to encrypt the data while we transmit it,” the company had said in an interview to IANS.
The information gave by examine firm StatCounter demonstrates UC Program as the most famous versatile program in India, outperforming Google’s Chrome with about 50 percent piece of the pie. The program even had mastery with 60 percent offer of the Indian market at the underlying stage however, in the end, lost some of its ground to Chrome.
