Delete this popular app from your Android phone to stop seeing too much ads

If you are tired of being constantly bombarded with ads, app suggestions, irrelevant content on your Android phone then it may be a good idea to check the kind of apps you have installed. A security firm called MalwareBytes has discovered a very popular app with over 10 million downloads to push ads. The app in question is named Barcode Scanner. As the name suggests it simply enables people to scan barcodes and get information.
There were no issues with the Barcode Scanner app and it was even included in the Google Play Pass program. However, a new update in December, infected the Barcode Scanner app with adware.
“Users were experiencing ads that were opening via their default browser out of nowhere. The odd part is none of them had recently installed any apps, and the apps they had installed came from the Google Play store,” said MalwareBytes in its blog post.