Google Play Store expels one of the biggest Chinese developers

Google gets serious about applications and its Google Play Store. And it is that it has vetoed one of the largest Chinese application developers for including abusive in its contents. Something that goes against the policies and terms of use of the Google Play Store. And that, of course, directly affects users who have downloaded any of its applications.

The Chinese developer company is CooTek, and it is relatively well known in the West for applications like TouchPal, its most famous tool.Well, this and another hundred applications available in the Google Play Store and with a few tens of millions of downloads have abusive. And not just the kind that appears every time you perform an action or go from one menu to another. He has also violated Google Play Store's terms of use by using an adware or abusive add-on called BeiTaAd that showed ads even when the phone was locked.

That is to say, that CooTek has abused when introducing Android users' mobile phones. A problem that not only represents torture for the user, but also prevented the proper functioning of their mobiles. Issues that are reflected in the comments of applications such as TouchPal, where assure that an abusive advertisement prevented them from accepting an incoming call, among other problems.

Given this problem, Google has decided to put its scissors to work and eliminate TouchPal from the Google Play Store In fact, it has banned or expelled CooTek from its application download platform, where it is no longer present. Of course, CooTek tried to solve the situation some time ago by removing part of its TouchPal application, although it seems that it did not kill the BeiTaAd adware. Issue that collides head-on with the policies and terms of use of Google Play.

This is not the first time that Google has taken this type of measure against developers of Chinese origin who try to abuse the use of their applications. In April, Do Global was also banned from the Google Play Store for violating Google's store rules. And, the year before, it was the companies Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech that suffered the same fate.

Google has always been the most relaxed company when it comes to banning developers from its app store.Apple, for its part, has boasted of a more paternalistic and secure state, although there have always been exceptions for both cases. Is more control needed to prevent this in the Google Play Store?