Of these adware apps, Neon Theme Keyboard by Nataļja Kokorevičs (which is still up in the Play Store at the time of writing) stands out as it has over a million downloads even with a terrible score of 1.8 based on 4,000 reviews. To make matters worse, many of these adware apps also feature the ability to hide their app icons in the app drawer or replace them with a different icon that resembles a core system component such as “SIM Toolkit”. However, they can keep running in the background as well by adding themselves to the battery saver’s exclusion list in Android.
These adware apps are also able to run on top of other apps as they request permission to use overlay windows during installation.
Web are actually modifications of existing adware families that first showed up on the Play Store back in May of this year. In addition to just being annoying, adware apps can quickly drain your smartphone’s battery as many of them are designed to continue running in the background even after you close them.
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