Google kept over a million bad apps out of the Play Store last year by allowing the user to decide which permissions certain apps should be granted.
discussing the steps it has been taking to continue protecting Android users from interacting with bad apps and bad developers. And Google Play Protect continues to scan billions of installed apps on billions of devices every day to protect Android users from getting mixed up in malware and other dangerous issues.
Has all of this scanning paid off for Google and Android users? Darn tootin' it has. Last year Google blocked 1.2 million apps that violate policy from getting listed in the Play Store preventing billions of harmful installations from taking place. Google last year also banned 190,000 bad accounts and closed 500,000 developer accounts that have been abandoned or inactive.launched the Data Safety Section in the Play Store that it first announced last May.
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