Google removes 77 malicious apps from Play Store: Here’s why

Google has confirmed pulling 77 malicious apps from the Play Store. But this is only part of a much larger cleanup. In the past year, Google deleted nearly four million apps, which works out to about 11,000 removals each day, as reported by Forbes.

The numbers come from Surfshark, supported by Google’s own transparency reports. Surfshark says more than half of these removals were tied to data protection or privacy violations.