India, Aug. 31 -- Google has confirmed pulling 77 malicious apps from the Play Store. But this is only part of a much larger cleanup. In the past year, Google deleted nearly four million apps, which works out to about 11,000 removals each day, as reported by Forbes.

The numbers come from Surfshark, supported by Google's own transparency reports. Surfshark says more than half of these removals were tied to data protection or privacy violations.

Google promised last year to tighten rules for apps, and the results are clear. By early 2024, the Play Store had already lost close to half its apps due to enforcement. Alongside the removals, Google reported cutting off about 155,000 developer accounts in 2024. Google is also expanding its requi...