June 3, 2020 09:13 am
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Google pulls popular app that helped remove Chinese apps from phones
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge
Google has removed a popular Indian-developed app from its Play Store that promised to find and remove Chinese apps from smartphones. The search giant confirmed to Gadgets 360 that the app, which was called “Remove Chinese Apps,” was removed for violating its Deceptive Behavior Policy, which prohibits software from encouraging or misleading users into “removing or disabling third-party apps.”
The app’s removal comes at a time when a Himalayan border dispute is driving anti-Chinese sentiment in India. TechCrunch notes that the situation has lead to some Indian celebrities calling for their fans to delete Chinese-developed apps like TikTok from their phones, in a move which appears to have the backing of some within India’s ruling BJP...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/3/21278951/google-play-store-indian-remove-chinese-apps-pulled-border-dispute
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