Pinduoduo has over 900 million users and is one of China’s most popular e-commerce platforms. Pinduoduo has confirmed that it is in communication with Google for further information, and it has also stated that several other apps have been suspended at the same time. Google has set the Play Protect enforcement to block the installation of these apps and prompt users to uninstall them if they have already downloaded them to their devices. The company has enforced Google Play Protect, which scans installed Android phone apps for malicious behaviour, on these allegedly harmful apps. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Google stated that it found malware in some versions of the app that were not available on the Play Store. The news of Pinduoduo’s ban came just a couple of weeks after Shein, another Chinese shopping giant, was caught copying clipboard content on Android phones of users who were using its older version.

Google has temporarily suspended Pinduoduo, a leading Chinese budget shopping app, from its Play Store due to the discovery of malware in certain versions of the app. The company has criticized the cherry-picking of its app, arguing that other apps have been suspended at the same time and it’s not fair to single out their app.

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