Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law

Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules. The stat comes from the Chocolate Factory's latest report, in which the ad biz said its "investment in new and improved security features, policy updates, and advanced machine …

[DS999]

According to Statista

There are less than 3 million apps TOTAL in the Play Store. So Google rejected almost as many in a single year as there are current/approved apps!

[Kevin McMurtrie]

The Google apps are still there

"Security" means only Google may know and profit from your personal data.

[Vader]

Google let any shit on the store.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Quite clearly not, if they blocked 2.3 million apps

[Anonymous Coward]

what's the ratio

of bad apps sneaking in, to bad ones being blocked?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if they ever delisted the pedometer app I complained about.

Google Play page said they don't collect or share any data. Their privacy policy listed all the kinds of data they collect and the sorts of things they use them for, including sharing with other companies. My firewall (configured to block ALL traffic for that app) agreed with their privacy policy.

Hmm. Can't find that app on the play store anymore, despite still being installed on my phone. (Do they notify users when an app is delisted?) But there's one with an identical icon except with "2024" added, looks like the same program, has the same "doesn't share any data" info in the Data Safety section, links to the same privacy policy...