On Monday, we removed two apps from the Play Store because our investigation discovered evidence of app install attribution abuse.

We also discovered evidence of app install attribution abuse in 3 ad network SDKs. We have asked the impacted developers to remove those SDKs from their apps. Because we believe most of these developers were not aware of the behavior from these third-party SDKs, we have given them a short grace period to take action.

Google Ads SDKs were not utilized for any of the abusive behaviors mentioned above.

Our investigation is ongoing and additional reviews of other apps and third party SDKs are still underway. If we find evidence of additional policy violations, we will take action.

We will continue to investigate and improve our capabilities to better detect and protect against abusive behavior and the malicious actors behind them.