One of the most popular applications for Android, The ES File Manager, has been removed from Google Play Store.
ΑThis application is probably the most popular file manager in recent years, and it is suspected of ad fraud, but not only that…
It all started a few days ago with a post on BuzzFeed News, where it was claimed that some applications from DO Global were running processes in the background to get banner ads.
In this way, the Chinese developer used his applications to click on ads, apparently without the user's permission and without the user knowing that this was happening at the time. This happened even if the application was not active.
Following the outbreak of this scandal, Google immediately removed some applications from its Play Store, such as Total Cleaner, Smart Cooler and RAM Master, all of which belong to DO Global.
ES File Manager was exempted from the sanction for a few more days, as the owner of the application is ES Global (a subsidiary of DO Global). So even if belatedly, Google proceeded to exclude the company and its programs from the Google Play Store, and it seems that many other applications from different companies that followed the same fraudulent practice will soon follow.
While the popularity of ES File Manager has declined in recent years, in part because smartphones' default file managers have improved significantly, but also because of the growing number of ads embedded by third-party applications, ES File Manager has garnered more than 100 million downloads. with an average rating of 4.6 stars.
If you still have this application installed on your smartphone, we recommend that you delete it immediately, as well as all other ES Global applications.
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