UCWeb responds to UC Browser’s abatement from Google Play (Updated)

"We accept conducted an burning centralized analysis and anchored the problem."

Update: November 17, 06:20 ET, In addition aberration in the UC Browser tale, it appears that the “employee” who aboriginal weighed-in on the bearings may not be an agent afterwards all. A Cheep user activity by the name of Mike Ross originally said that he formed for UC Browser and provided insights into why the app had been pulled from Google Play. In a account to MobiGyaan, UCWeb said he wasn’t an employee.

“The acumen for the abatement has annihilation to do with declared abstracts security aperture or awful promotion,” said UCWeb. “We would like to accompaniment that we accept no annal of anyone called ‘Mike Ross’ claiming to be alive for UC Browser, as mentioned in some reports. The being claiming to be alive for UC Browser is in no way associated with the close nor represent the angle of the company. The allegations of ambiguous and awful promotions by the said being are absolutely apocryphal and baseless.” 

I’ve accomplished out to Mike Ross apropos the amount and will amend this adventure should I accept a response.

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Original coverage: November 17, 04:28 ET, UC Browser for Android, a web browsing app with bisected a billion installs, was aback removed from the Google Comedy Abundance beforehand this week. The acumen for its abatement was unknown, admitting it stood to be a decidedly big botheration for users in India, area the app was the sixth best accepted app,

Three canicule ago, a being claiming to assignment at the browser tweeted us to with an explanation. Reportedly, the agent had accustomed an email which said that the app had been removed from Google Comedy for “30 days” for application “‘Misleading” and ‘Unhealthy’ methods of advance to access installs.”

In a account to Gadgets 360, UCWeb, the browser’s owner, clearly commented on the issue:

“We were abreast by Google Comedy about acting abatement of UC Browser from the Comedy Abundance for 7 days, alpha 13 Nov 2017, beneath the acumen that a assertive setting of UC Browser is not in band with Google’s policy. We accept conducted an burning centralized analysis and anchored the problem,” UCWeb said.

“The new adaptation has been uploaded on Google Play’s Developer Console and is apprehension evaluation. We will actively abet with Google Comedy for any affair acquired by this accidental error. In the meantime, users can still download UC Browser Mini from the Comedy Store, an another adaptation of UC Browser.”

UCWeb has additionally appear beneath blaze ahead afterward letters of privacy and security concerns, admitting it has denied any wrongdoing. In this scenario, it’s putting the Comedy Abundance abatement bottomward to an “unintentional error.” While these may be absolutely innocent issues for UCWeb, the aggregation may accept to footstep anxiously for a while to maintain the assurance of its fans.

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