Google Play Store Removes AnTuTu Apps for Alleged Cheetah Mobile Links

As office of its continued deportment against Chetah Mobile for severe violations of its Play Store policies, Google terminal calendar week removed all AnTuTu apps from its online app store, alleging the makers of the pop benchmarking app to be a 'related account' of the infamous Chinese developer. As of Monday, no AnTuTu apps could be spotted on the Google Play Store, with AnTuTu 3D Bench, AnTuTu Criterion and the new AI evaluation software, AITUTU, all removed from the platform in ane fell swoop over the weekend.

AnTuTu, however, has denied beingness a related business relationship of Cheetah Mobile, although an investigation from Android Police institute that 'Privacy Disclosure' links within some of the AnTuTu apps takes users to Cheetah Mobile website. The investigation further revealed that i Fu Sheng is at the helm of both companies.

On its part, AnTuTu did admit business and ownership links with the controversial developer, but claimed that it operates as an independent company. In a statement to GizChina over the weekend, AnTuTu said: "Antutu is NOT the related account of Chetah Mobile! … Chetah Mobile invested in u.s. in effectually 2014 and became one of our shareholders since then. Withal, we however retain a considerable business relationship of shares and Contained operation of the company as well as our own independent Google Play account. Chetah Mobile has never touched our Google Play account, and AnTuTu has not washed any promotion of Chetah Mobile's software".

The visitor went on to merits that it believes the entire thing has been a misunderstanding that will be cleared up every bit more facts come up to light. "Nosotros believe that the reason for Google'south misjudgment is that nosotros purchased and used the legal services from Cheetah Mobile, then our privacy policy link used the address of cmcm.com. This is what we are working on, including changing legal supplier. We hope that Google can examine Antutu'southward account advisedly and  finally resolve this misunderstanding as soon equally possible".

In case you didn't know information technology already, Google last month removed all Chetah Mobile apps from the Play Store for alleged ad fraud as role of a massive purge that saw the tech giant banning around 600 'disruptive' apps from its Android app store. The latest crackdown is role of Google'southward ongoing efforts to clean up the Android eco-system and prevent publishers from bombarding users with obnoxious ads.

Source: https://beebom.com/play-store-removes-antutu-cheetah-mobile/

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