UC Browser vanishes from Google Play Store

UC Browser, a mobile browser app designed by China-based UCWeb -- backed by Alibaba group, is reportedly taken down from the Google Play Store. The browser had almost 500 million downloads across the globe with over 420 million users.

The browser is quite popular in India with a user base of almost 100 million. The delisting of app has seen no response from UCWeb or Google and, therefore, is reported to be a temporary delisting. However, an email received by Android Police founder -- an online technology news portal – states that the UC Web’s affiliates are using malicious redirect