- by Soumili Roy
- 19th Sep 2020
Paytm Removed From Google Play Store: WHY?
In a fairly amazing move recently, Google has brought down the application for the very popular money related administrations stage, Paytm from the Play Store. As the headline administers, the choice to eliminate the One97 Communications owned and operated application from the greatest store of uses for cell phones comes after Google discovered the Paytm application to violate its tough enemy, which is to say, stringent betting arrangements or anti-gambling policies.
UPDATE: But, Paytm is back on Google Play Store hours after it was brought down. Read along to find out why.
Contemplating the popularity of this made in India budgetary service stage, that at present appreciates the help of more than 50 million dynamic clients, Suzanne Frey, Vice President, Product, Android Security, and Privacy at Google clarified in a blogpost the purposes for the application's expulsion from Google Play.
Without naming the Paytm, she stated: “We don’t allow online casinos or support any unregulated gambling apps that facilitate sports betting. This includes if an app leads consumers to an external website that allows them to participate in paid tournaments to win real money or cash prizes, it is a violation of our policies... We have these policies to protect users from potential harm. When an app violates these policies, we notify the developer of the violation and remove the app from Google Play until the developer brings the app into compliance. And in the case where there are repeated policy violations, we may take more serious action which may include terminating Google Play Developer accounts. Our policies are applied and enforced on all developers consistently."
Why is it yet safe to utilize Paytm?
Be that as it may, even with Paytm eliminated from Google Play, the stage actually stays practical for dynamic clients who have the Paytm application previously introduced on their mobile phones, as per knowledge. Which makes one wonder: With the Paytm application prohibited, is it really still safe to utilize it on our cellphones?
The answer to that little query definitely is yes!
Evidently, right now, as one of India's most well known budgetary administrations app, Paytm is major to the every day method of living for many Indians in various metropolitan and semi-metropolitan focuses in the nation basically all over. Also, as to speak of that, its profound arrival at that pervades even numerous towns and other provincial regions making it practically difficult to dispose of roughly at the drop of the cap.
But as we came up to mentioning it previously, fortunately we don't need to uninstall the Paytm app from our phones or stop using the platform altogether from this moment onwards. The only reason that rolls for this is that as a platform, Paytm still remains the same sort of secure and also, a safe financial services platform that it was yesterday and gradually before that as well.
The main thing that has changed is that the Android application for the stage has been found disregarding Google's perplexing standards around internet betting, challenges, and money prizes. Yet, that basically doesn't matter to the security of exchanges made through the stages. So basically, as a client, in the event that you were open to utilizing Paytm for making on the web exchanges yesterday, Google's most recent move shouldn't have any effect on you today and maybe, later tomorrow.
This is something that even Paytm has attempted to clarify by means of a tweet shared through its official handle. Specifically in the tweet, it has clarified that the application has been taken out from the Play Store briefly and that the organization is progressing in the direction of taking it back to clients soon enough. The tweet likewise explained that till at that point, the stage will stay practical for existing clients and that they can keep making secure exchanges until the opportunity of having the application back online on the Google Play Store comes into knowledge.
