A month after Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) banned all apps that mined cryptocurrency on Android devices, many of those apps remained live on the Play Store.
Google issued a blanket ban on all software with crypto-mining capabilities on 28 July, and gave software developers 30-day grace period to comply with the new rules. However, according to a report by the Next Web, there were numerous mobile apps that remained on the store even after the deadline had passed.
The Next Web followed eight cryptocurrency mining applications since Google’s new policy was announced, and found that only three of them were removed after the ban. NeoNeonMiner, Crypto Miner PRO, Pickaxe Miner, and Pocket Miner were still available for download on Google Play Store a month after the introduction of the policy. Of those, only Bitcoin Miner claims to have updated their code to comply with Google’s new rules.
Another mining app called MinerGate has also disappeared from Google Play Store, but confirmed they have removed on-device mining capabilities from their softwa...
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