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240+ Android apps caught showing out-of-context ads – ZDNet
The malicious applications were showing ads but making them appear as coming from other, legitimate apps.
Google has removed this summer more than 240 Android applications from the official Play Store for showing out-of-context ads and breaking a newly introduced Google policy against this type of intrusive advertising.
Out-of-context ads (also known as out-of-app ads) are mobile ads that are shown outside an app’s normal container. They can appear as popups or as fullscreen ads.
Out-of-context ads are banned on the Play Store since February this year, when Google banned more than 600 apps that we…
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