Could be that all the complains that Infinix users give about numerous ads on their phones could be coming from Touchpal. This development is of particular interest to the Kenyan market seeing how popular TouchPal is thanks to the app coming pre-installed on TECNO and Infinix smartphones. Unfortunately for the company, when Google investigated the new claims, they confirmed that indeed there was still malicious code which led to the expulsion of all apps and CooTek’s developer account until further notice.
CooTek denied these claims, citing that they had reexamined their apps and found no evidence of the claims. However, BuzzFeedNews later found out that 58 of the new apps still had malicious code in them. The issue of Touchpal and its siblings of apps misbehaving with adware was revealed back in June 2019 and the makers, CooTek issued an official apology which was followed by the reuploading of clean adware-free apps to the Play Store, at least according to the company.
