UC Browser has mysteriously abolished from the Google Play Store

The mobile-friendly adaptation of the accepted Google Chrome another in China and India appears to accept been removed from the Play Store.

UC Browser for Android appears to accept been taken bottomward from the Google Play Store. The mobile-friendly adaptation of the web browser acutely abolished afterwards a trace beforehand today, aloof weeks afterwards the app topped 500 actor downloads on Google’s adaptable store.

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For those alien with the name, UC Browser is developed by UCWeb, which is endemic by China’s Alibaba Group. As able-bodied as actuality a badly accepted another to Google Chrome in its home region, UC Browser has an astronomic abject in India.

While Chrome has aback reinstated some of its dominance, aback in June, UC Browser became India’s favourite adaptable browser and at one point grasped over 50 percent bazaar share. In addition, it is the sixth best downloaded Android app in India.

UCWeb has additionally claimed that Indian users accomplish up 100 actor of its absolute account alive users from about the world, with the closing amount reportedly extensive 420 million, per letters from 2016. As a result, its abatement is a abominable footfall to say the least. It will additionally advance to a cardinal of key questions, best notably: why was it removed afterwards all this time and afterwards so abounding downloads?

UC Browser’s dematerialization was aboriginal spotted by the advertent netizens on Reddit, and its users accept an absorbing theory.

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Reports began bouncing in August that claimed UC Browser has a rather awful addiction of burglary acute user abstracts which it again sends aback to alien servers in China afterwards the user’s consent. As allotment of a boundless analysis into abstracts security, Indian government admiral bidding apropos that the UC Browser app continues to aggregate this abstracts afterwards it has been uninstalled, per a Times of India report.

UC Browser has appear beneath analysis apropos abstracts security apropos in the past. In 2015, Canadian advisers claimed that the Chinese and English-language adaptation of UC Browser “made calmly accessible to third parties alone identifiable advice like location, chase capacity and adaptable subscriber and accessory numbers.”

Many of the Reddit posters acclamation UC Browser’s abrupt dematerialization assume to anticipate that the contempo allegations are to blame, as it had been anticipation that the app could be banned in India should the accusations authority any water.

At present there is no affirmation to either affirm or abjure these suspicions and both Google and UCWeb are yet to animadversion on the situation, at the time of writing. UCWeb has ahead denied any wrongdoing, advertence that it “will not do annihilation to aperture the assurance of our users” and that it takes “security and aloofness actual seriously.”