You open your phone to do something important and suddenly an app pops up an ad in front of you, which you can’t get rid of. This is extremely annoying and part of industry wide problem of mobile fraud.

Google will longer be a party to apps who serve obnoxious disruptive ads which take control of your device without permissions. They have removed nearly 600 apps as such and are implementing new regulations in the place.

These apps that have been removed from the Play store were found violating Google’s ad policies.

As part of our ongoing efforts, along with help from newly developed technologies, today we’re announcing (that) nearly 600 apps have been removed from the Google Play Store and banned from our ad monetization platforms, Google AdMob and Google AdManager, for violating our ads policy, said Per Bjorke, Google’s Senior Product Manager, in its security blog.

For now, Google has not disclosed names of apps that are banned from its platform. Names of developers are also not yet disclosed.