After going off from Google Play Store for more than a week, Alibaba owned UC Web on Wednesday launched a new version of its UC Browser. The new version of UC Browser is available with updated technical settings to strictly comply with Google Play’s policy. UC Browser Mini and UC News from the same group are also available for download.
UC Browser is one the most popular browser in India. UC Web even claims that with a user base share of 45% (as per Statcounter), It is most used browser in terms of internet usage on mobile. In fact it’s been around from the old days of Nokia Symbian phones and has been downloaded over 500 million times from the Play Store.
Recently UC Browser was accused of sending data from Indian users to its servers in China. Reports even suggested that the app may have violated a few rules of Google Play by pushing out malicious ads. In turn it was pulled down from the Play Store. Some reports claimed that it was removed temporarily due to ‘misleading’ and ‘unhealthy’ user acquisition methods.
However, now it is back and we do hope that they have fixed the privacy issues plaguing the app.
